TPM Philosophy Quote

How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.--Adam Smith

It is a great advantage for a philosophy to be substantially true.--George Santayana

A stupid insensibility to the events of human life necessarily extinguishes all that keen and earnest attention to the propriety of our own conduct, which constitutes the real essence of virtue.--Adam Smith

The Scandal of Simone de Beauvoir (Pt 1) How Beauvoir had sex with her students and lied about it afterwards heristical.com/p/the-scandal-…

When Is Telling The Truth No Better Than Lying? Kevin DeLapp and Jeremy Henkel on Augustine, Kant and FBI Director James Comey. philosophersmag.com/when-is-tellin…

The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start, and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science - or of any honest intellectual inquiry.--Stephen Jay Gould

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection.--Charles Darwin

If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.--Stephen Jay Gould

In general, I feel if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.--John Searle

Why Bryan Magee's Memoir Was Pulped The Curious Tale of a Libel Action heristical.com/p/why-bryan-ma…

Not just Philosophy of Neuroscience but Philosophy and Neuroscience Barry C. Smith argues for a collaborative approach. philosophersmag.com/not-just-philo…

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.--George Santayana

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely.--Simone de Beauvoir

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe.--Thomas Paine

The Established church... will more readily pardon an attack on thirty-eight of its thirty-nine articles than on one thirty-ninth of its income.--Karl Marx

The Genesis of a Philosophical Myth On Schopenhauer throwing a seamstress downstairs heristical.com/p/the-genesis-…

45 Years of French Philosophy Vincent Descombes looks back on his history of French philosophy from 1933 to 1978. philosophersmag.com/45-years-of-fr…

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries.--Rene Descartes

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.--Thomas Hobbes

No one gossips about other people's secret virtures.--Bertrand Russell