Philosopher

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.

Anak yang hanya dididik di sekolah adalah anak tak berpendidikan.

Saya percaya secara umum dalam dualisme antara fakta dan ide-ide dari fakta-fakta di kepala manusia.

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

Kebiasaan lebih kuat dari pada akal.

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

Kata kecil adalah memiliki tragedi: menikah dan mengidentifikasi hal-hal yang berbeda dengan kepolosan terbesar; namun tidak ada dua yang identik, dan jika di situlah letak pesona pernikahan mereka dan memanggil mereka satu, di situlah letak bahaya.

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

Kata kecil adalah memiliki tragedi: menikah dan mengidentifikasi hal-hal yang berbeda dengan kepolosan terbesar; namun tidak ada dua yang identik, dan jika di situlah letak pesona pernikahan mereka dan memanggil mereka satu, di situlah letak bahaya.

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

Bagi orang yang sudah melaksanakan tugas hidupnya dengan alami, kematian terasa sealami tidur.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.