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philosophy progressive-taxation class
The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped. What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested. Ludwig von Mises
philosophy finals causes
A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion. Charles Peguy
philosophy great-philosophy reproach
A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear.
philosophy passion doe
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does. Denis Diderot
philosophy science firsts
The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.
philosophy firsts steps
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
philosophy fanaticism
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
philosophy firsts steps
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
philosophy teaching class
They didn't teach Nietzsche in the philosophy department at Harvard; philosophy there was strictly analytical stuff and the poetic ramblings of Nietzsche did not belong. And see - you are teaching it in a literature class - so they must have been right. Dean Wareham
intellectual found difficult
I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult. Albert Schweitzer
intellectual left bubbles
I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in. Dennis Prager
intellectual emotion veneer
Leftism hides under an intellectual veneer, but underneath it is all emotion
intellectual damage moral
My great project is to undo the moral and intellectual damage of most universities
intellectual controversial interest
How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups? Edward Abbey
intellectual weakness mysterious
Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others. Charles Caleb Colton
intellectual widows want
These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation, Chris Christie
intellectual style canada
The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants. Camille Paglia
intellectual speak tradition
French rhetorical models are too narrow for the English tradition. Most pernicious of French imports is the notion that there is no person behind a text. Is there anything more affected, aggressive, and relentlessly concrete than a Parisan intellectual behind his/her turgid text? The Parisian is a provincial when he pretends to speak for the universe.
sloth laziness virtue
Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.
sloth unreliability answers
What do you want to avoid? Such an easy answer: sloth and unreliability. If you're unreliable it doesn't matter what your virtues are. You're going to crater immediately. Doing what you have faithfully engaged to do should be an automatic part of your conduct. You want to avoid sloth and unreliability. Charlie Munger
sloth laziness hard
Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard. William Shakespeare
sloth laziness easy
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy. Benjamin Franklin
sloth overcoming diligence
Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.
sloth lazy agnostic
You are not an agnostic.....You are just a fat slob who is too lazy to go to Mass. Conor Cruise O'Brien
sloth paradise laziness
Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise. Amos Bronson Alcott
sloth apes court
And to the English court assemble now, From every region, apes of idleness!
sloth horror awake
Awake, awake, English nobility! Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot.