Quotes About Author

The party that called itself liberal aimed at respecting the liberty to dispose of one's own goods

Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy

In the land of the killers, a sinner's mind is a sanctum.

As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.

My judicial philosophy is fidelity to the law.

...love rather than fear...this radical philosophy is coming from me, an avowed misanthrope...surely there is hope for us all.

Unalienable rights are essential limitations to all governments.

I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea.

There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.

Philosophy ... must not bargain away anything of the emphatic concept of truth.

I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.

Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.

Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.

In my opinion a mathematician, in so far as he is a mathematician, need not preoccupy himself with philosophy-an opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.

Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.

I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.

Reality has always proved to be much more sophisticated and subtle than any preconceived philosophy.

Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.

The philosophy commonly called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus.

A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.

This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.

Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.

I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists.