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What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

Theodor W. Adorno

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

Theodor W. Adorno

Tags: civilization, critical theory, cultural criticism, culture, culture critique, decline, decline of civilization, dialectic, dialectics, enlightenment

There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.

E.A. Bucchianeri

There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.

E.A. Bucchianeri

Tags: academia, academic, dinner, dinner table, family, family time, government, governments, humility, kitchen

You can believe in whatsoever you like, but the truth remains the truth, no matter how sweet the lie may taste.

Michael Bassey Johnson

You can believe in whatsoever you like, but the truth remains the truth, no matter how sweet the lie may taste.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Tags: bad influence, belief, bible, christianity, exaggeration, fabrication, false prophets, falsification, gospel, half truth

It's impossible to walk through solid rock... You have to walk between the molecules that make up the rock.

J.M. Dattilo

It's impossible to walk through solid rock... You have to walk between the molecules that make up the rock.

J.M. Dattilo

Tags: advice, humor, life, philosophy, reality, science fiction, strength, success, wisdom

The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is rather that if there were no God then there could be no witness for there...

Cormac McCarthy

The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is rather that if there were no God then there could be no witness for there...

Cormac McCarthy

Tags: existentialism, nihilism, philosophy, theology

The three most important words in a relationship are not, 'I love you,' but, 'Tell me more.

Stefan Molyneux

The three most important words in a relationship are not, 'I love you,' but, 'Tell me more.

Stefan Molyneux

Tags: friendship, human interaction, philosophy, psychology, relationships, self esteem, self knowledge

Do not trouble about those who practice philosophy, whether they are good or bad; but examine the thing itself well and carefully. And if philosophy appears a bad thing to you, turn every man from it,...

Socrates

Do not trouble about those who practice philosophy, whether they are good or bad; but examine the thing itself well and carefully. And if philosophy appears a bad thing to you, turn every man from it,...

Socrates

Tags: philosophy, socrates

To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections...

Frank Herbert

To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections...

Frank Herbert

Tags: dune, free will, god, philosophy

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

H.L. Mencken

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

H.L. Mencken

Tags: black cat, blind, cat, funny, humor, joke, lie, lies, looking, man

In an earlier stage of our development most human groups held to a tribal ethic. Members of the tribe were protected, but people of other tribes could be robbed or killed as one pleased. Gradually the...

Peter Singer

In an earlier stage of our development most human groups held to a tribal ethic. Members of the tribe were protected, but people of other tribes could be robbed or killed as one pleased. Gradually the...

Peter Singer

Tags: ethical, human, inspirational, philosophy

Life's managed, not cured.

Phillip C. McGraw

Life's managed, not cured.

Phillip C. McGraw

Tags: inspiration, inspirational, life, philosophy, psychology, self help, wisdom

Philosophy and science have not always been friendly toward the idea of God, the reason being they are dedicated to the task of accounting for things and are impatient with anything that refuses to gi...

A.W. Tozer

Philosophy and science have not always been friendly toward the idea of God, the reason being they are dedicated to the task of accounting for things and are impatient with anything that refuses to gi...

A.W. Tozer

Tags: god, incomprehension, philosophy, science

Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who know more and more about less and less, until they know everythi...

Konrad Lorenz

Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who know more and more about less and less, until they know everythi...

Konrad Lorenz

Tags: experts, philosophy

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.

Vladimir Lenin

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.

Vladimir Lenin

Tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism

I only know that I know nothing

Socrates

I only know that I know nothing

Socrates

Tags: creative thinking, intellect, knowledge, philosophy, wisdom

The moment you stop trying to become a better person, is the moment you start to become worse than what you already are.

Carroll Bryant

The moment you stop trying to become a better person, is the moment you start to become worse than what you already are.

Carroll Bryant

Tags: philisophical, philosophy, philosophy of life, philosophy of people

I am my world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

I am my world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Tags: philosophy, solipsism

Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.

Sun Tzu

Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.

Sun Tzu

Tags: philosophy, thought provoking, war

Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure

Arthur Schopenhauer

Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure

Arthur Schopenhauer

Tags: happiness, philosophy

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

Albert Einstein

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

Albert Einstein

Tags: einstein, philosophy, science
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