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

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.

Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy

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

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.

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

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.

Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

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

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

If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.

I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared

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

It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate.

Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.

Why pamper life's complexities when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat?

That Hegel is a metaphysician, and that he thinks metaphysics is fundamental to philosophy, is plain enough from his definition of philosophy.

Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.

A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practice it.

It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power.