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The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.
 
We have Christians against Muslims against Jews. They're making incompatible claims on real estate in the Middle East as though God were some kind of omniscient real estate broker parsing out parcels of land to his chosen flock. People are literally dying over ancient literature.
 
We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.
 
If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration, but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
 
In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
 
Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
 
Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
 
CRIMINAL: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
 
A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
 
A sane society is that which corresponds to the needs of man — not necessarily to what he feels to be his needs, because even the most pathological aims can be felt subjectively as that which the person wants most; but to what his needs are objectively, as they can be ascertained by the study of man. It is our first task then, to ascertain what is the nature of man, and what are the needs which stem from this nature.
 
Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books!
 
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer, so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
 
A true spiritual practitioner is someone who has discovered that it is possible to be at ease in the world for no reason, if only for a few moments at a time, and that such ease is synonymous with transcending the apparent boundaries of the self.
 
The philosophers have only interpreted the world. The point, however, is to change it.
 
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity--- romantic love and gunpowder.
 
But it’s in the nature of progress that it erases its tracks, and its champions fixate on the remaining injustices and forget how far we have come.
 
A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an answer. Thus the question is suspended between the two persons involved in this answer and question. It is like a bud with untouched blossoms . . . If the question is left totally untouched by thought, it then has its own answer because the questioner and answerer, as persons, have disappeared. This is a form of dialogue in which investigation reaches a certain point of intensity and depth, which then has a quality that thought can never reach.
 
To me, body and mind are different aspects of specific biological processes.
 
I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
 
How’s this for a display of human kin selection: Subjects were given a scenario of a bus hurtling toward a human and a nondescript dog, and they could only save one. Whom would they pick? It depended on degree of relatedness, as one progressed from sibling (1 percent chose the dog over the sibling) to grandparent (2 percent) to distant cousin (16 percent) to foreigner (26 percent).
 
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