Quote of the Day

Quote of the Day

History is full of stories, rants, perspectives, truths, lies, facts, details, opinions, ordinances, etc. The stories told by the men and women who were there, as well as by those who were not, and their comments, are items for display in the archives of humankind. Visit the museum and contribute.

"Anyone who has had a glimpse of the range and subtlety of the thought of Plato or of a Hegel will long ago have despaired of becoming a philosopher."

Michael Oakeshott

Category: Miscellany

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"Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths."

Bertrand Russell

Submitted by: gtgillis / 2004-11-03 Category: Miscellany

"Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive."

Friedrich Nietzsche

Submitted by: gtgillis / 2004-11-03 Category: Miscellany

"Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane."

Theodore Adorno

Submitted by: gtgillis / 2004-11-03 Category: Miscellany

"Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination."

Benedetto Croce

Submitted by: gtgillis / 2004-11-03 Category: Miscellany

"As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other."

Pythagoras

Submitted by: gtgillis / 2004-11-03 Category: Miscellany

"A bad cause will ever be supported by bad means and bad men."

Thomas Paine

Submitted by: gtgillis / 2004-11-03 Category: Freedom

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