I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.
The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America.
The only good reason to embrace a philosophical position is that you are convinced it is true or at least makes sense of the world better than the alternatives.
The philosophical spirit is not satisfied to simply accept what it is told, no matter how much prestige the teller seems to have. This is true even if the teller is a god.
Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.
To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.
The figure of Satan and the fires of hell have been demythologized by modern Christian biblical scholars, theologians and philosophers.
I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.
It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.
Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.
To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.
Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?
It is not meant that the artist, in arriving at truth, must follow the way of the scientist, or, in stating it, the way of the philosopher.
If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
C-3PO: Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.
With all the weird surroundings of outer space the basic underlying theme of the show is a philosophical approach to man's relationship to woman. There are both sexes in the crew, in fact, the first officer is a woman.
As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it.
To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by Western universities.
