Quotes About Philosophy

All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

It is impossible to understand history, international politics, the world economy, religions, philosophy, or 'patterns of culture' without taking geography into account.

If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?

Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté.

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

Conservatism is the politics of reality

The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better.

Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.

Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul.

If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion.

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

Libertarianism is a theory of politics that is so compelling that once you have absorbed it, it becomes the lens through which you end up understanding all economic and political events.

Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part.

Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

Individualism is a denial that life has any meaning except the gratification of the ego; in politics it must end in anarchy. It is not possible for one man to be both Christian and Individualist.

Any creed whose basic doctrines do not include respect for the creeds of others, is simply power politics masquerading as philosophy.

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

All I know is I'm not a Marxist.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.