Music escapes ideological characterization. Just as there are some social scientists who believe that what cannot be measured does not truly exist, and some psychologists used to believe that consciou...
I have the not altogether unsatisfying impression that civilisation is collapsing around me.Is it my age, I wonder, or the age we live in? I am not sure. Civilisations do collapse, after all, but on t...
Demonstrative proof is lacking, but if we thought only about those things about which such proof were available, our minds would be empty most of the time.
Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.
Facts are much more malleable than prejudices.
There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.
All forms of human happiness contain within themselves the seeds of their own decomposition.
To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.