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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
men united
We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. Albert Schweitzer
men thinking matter
The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.
men problem great-men
For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.
men thinking evil
Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and take it to the highest value, he becomes a thinking being. Then he values other lives and experiences them as part of his own life. With that, his goal is to help everyone take their life to the highest value; anything which limits or destroys a life is evil. That is morality. That is how men are related to the world around them.
men thinking bears
Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe.
men doe musician
Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.
men thinking giving
The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.
men destiny humans
The destiny of man is to be more and more human.
men perfection personality
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
desire gut helped mainly people serve
Mainly we helped people gut out their houses. We had a desire to help and serve the people. Rob Wheeler
desire
Lemme tell you about that run. That was desire. That was heart. That was want.
desires fain fling love
Love that so desires would fain keep her changeless; / Fain would fling the net, and fain have her free. George Meredith
desire love
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. Robert Frost
desire expressed field language learn sciences social students useful
Many students from the social sciences have expressed a desire to learn the language because they know it will be useful in their field of work.
desires feet holy serving
Serving at the Feet of the Holy Saints, all desires are fulfilled.
desire exactly pleased violence
So long as they don't get violent, I want to let everyone say what they wish, for I myself have always said exactly what pleased me. Albert Einstein
desire flatter freely mr otherwise paint pay picture remark skill warts
Mr Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture freely like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it Oliver Cromwell
desired english-philosopher learned repetition result
Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.