Quotes by Philosophers

Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly. Jose Ortega y Gasset

Genius Better See Magic Magic Wand Inspiration Clearly Beware Like Sort Wand Anybody Wants Sparingly Should Used Notions Who Things

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made. Jose Ortega y Gasset

Made Absence Which Barbarism Standards Appeal

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself. Jose Ortega y Gasset

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be. Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life Man Duty Degradation Simply His Refused Manner Who

It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation. Judith Butler

Freedom Gender Important Those Ideal Most Also Imposed Domain Norms Different Formed Against Agency View Who Resist Violence Presentation

Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his international relations, relations which are always pursued in ways that continue to link and fortify securitarian power with the opening of new markets. Judith Butler

Failure Rights Power International Relations Relations Markets Ways Obama Constitutional Constitutional Rights Pursued Instance New Opening Democratic Another Always Proved Continue His Link Close Where Rhetoric Which Fortify Useful International Guantanamo

Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations. Jurgen Habermas

Today Religion Disappointment Political Old Language More Fact Over New Authoritarian Offers May Nationalistic Regimes Convincing

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs. Karl Marx

Money Value Living Add Virtue Ability Lays Occult Least Itself Eggs Offspring Commodities Being Golden Acquired Capital Forth Brings

The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production. Karl Marx

Science Value Relation Mental Because Always Labor Reproduce Far Required Product Production Stands Original Necessary Below

Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science. Karl Marx

Time Man Science Natural Will Itself Just Natural Science Incorporate

In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality. Karl Popper

Reality Speak Statement Must About Scientific Does Far Speaks

If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe. Kerry Thornley

Religion Masses Opium Fringe Then Disorganized Organized Organized Religion Lunatic

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things. Lao Tzu

Mother Earth All Things Name Named Heaven Eternal Origin Things

Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is. Lao Tzu

Man Law Earth Takes His Heaven Being

A nothing will serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said. Ludwig Wittgenstein

Will Nothing About Something Could Well Said Just Which Serve

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it. Ludwig Wittgenstein

Care Logic See Takes Look Does How Itself

To deprive mankind of their natural right and power of creating wealth for themselves, is as great a tyranny as it is to rob them of it after they have created it. And this is done by all laws against honest banking. Lysander Spooner

The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind. Lysander Spooner

Crimes Enslave Destroy Carried Plunder Greatest Governments Mankind Wars