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To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat. Jose Ortega y Gasset

Rule Firm Question Hand Heavy Much Seat

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved. Jose Ortega y Gasset

Preserved Adolescence Poetry Thus

No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement. Josiah Royce

Love Time World Cruelty Oppose Our Enter Able Atonement Shall Due Tragic Fitting Human Just Loyal Deed Deep Treason

That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the life that now we experience, follows from the very fact that here nothing final or individual is found expressed. Josiah Royce

Life Experience Nothing Final Temporal Follows Something Fact Individual Individual Life Limited Very Us Expressed Expression Found Now Here

The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is only preparatory. This second aspect is the one which from Kant, until the present time, has formed the deeper problem of thought. Josiah Royce

Time Problem Thought First Other Our Only Gives Absolute Self Idealism Until Which Formed Us Kant Aspect Notion Preparatory Deeper Present Second Present Time

I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the feelings of other people. I never consciously thought, except after patterns that the world or my fellows set for me. Josiah Royce

Me People World Thought Feeling Feelings Other Unlike Except Could Never Knew Know Fellows Felt After Patterns Set

And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness, all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning. Josiah Royce

No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already. Josiah Royce

Men Say Find Only Make Error Commit Create Consensus

We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or something that is simply true about us, a fact about us, but actually it's a phenomenon that is being produced all the time and reproduced all the time, so to say gender is performative is to say that nobody really is a gender from the start. Judith Butler

Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different dynamic it seems to me is at work in the critique of new sexuality studies. Judith Butler

Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media. Judith Butler

Mistake Law Important Feminism Think Way Would Would-Be Sexual Only Known Very Movement Which Harassment Media

I'm a professor of comparative literature, among other things, so I'm able to read in a couple of other languages, and I understand that not everyone is, not everyone can, although it is quite stunning how many people do read Spanish in the United States, but moving between languages is also extremely helpful. Judith Butler

People Other Everyone Extremely States Able Between Stunning Couple Also Read Although Understand How How Many People Quite Literature Spanish Moving Languages Helpful Many Comparative United Professor United States Among Things

I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic. Judith Butler

Every Think Sexual Comic Fundamentally Position

I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist. Judith Butler

Gay Before Lesbian Say Would Feminist Queer Theorist

It will not do to say that international law is the enemy of the Jewish people, since the Jewish people surely did not as a whole oppose the Nuremburg trials, or the development of human rights law. Judith Butler

Rights Trials People Enemy Law Will Oppose Human Rights Jewish People Say Development Since Surely Did Human International Whole International Law Jewish

When Zionism becomes co-extensive with Jewishness, Jewishness is pitted against the diversity that defines democracy, and if I may say so, betrays one of the most important ethical dimensions of the diasporic Jewish tradition: namely, the obligation of co-habitation with those different from ourselves. Judith Butler

My parents were practicing Jews. My mother grew up in an orthodox synagogue, and after my grandfather died, she went to a conservative synagogue and a little later ended up in a reform synagogue. My father was in reform synagogues from the beginning. Judith Butler

Understanding Hamas/Hezbollah as social movements that are progressive, that are on the left, that are part of a global left, is extremely important. That does not stop us from being critical of certain dimensions of both movements. Judith Butler

Important Understanding Progressive Extremely Dimensions Critical Both Part Global Does Left Stop Being Movements Social Us Certain Social Movements

Identifying Israel with Jewry obscures the existence of the small but important post-Zionist movement in Israel, including the philosophers Adi Ophir and Anat Biletzki, the sociologist Uri Ram, the professor of theatre Avraham Oz and the poet Yitzhak Laor. Judith Butler

Theatre Poet Important Ram Philosophers Small Identifying Israel Existence Movement Oz Including Professor

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace. Julien Benda

Love War Peace Fear Will Exists Based Ever

Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost. Julien Benda

Me Lost Nothing Philosophy Several Seems More Remark Aristotle Been Discovered Times Than Probable Arts Doubtful

One never really knows who one's enemy is. Jurgen Habermas

Enemy Never Knows Really Who

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