Homosexuality is not 'normal.' On the contrary, it is a challenge to the norm; therein rests its eternally revolutionary character. Note I do not call it a challenge to the idea of the norm. Queer theorists - that wizened crew of flimflamming free-loaders - have tried to take the poststructuralist tack of claiming that there is no norm, since ( Read more... )

To superficial minds the vices of the great seem at all times agreeable.

Adam Smith

Socrates said, 'Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live'.

Plutarch

I won't talk to my colleagues about philosophy. […] They are too stupid.

Colin McGinn

Woman is not yet capable of friendship: women are still cats and birds. Or, at best, cows.

Friedrich Nietzsche

also said,

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

i promise i will make a real update later...since it has been so long. i have just really been busy. for now some quotes will have to do.

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies
which compose the mighty frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a
mind.

George Berkeley

What is possible would never have ( Read more... )

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

George Santayana

It is very much easier to be intolerant, angry, jealous and resentful than it is
to be generous, patient, kind and considerate. Without question it takes far
more thought, and far more work, to treat others from the standpoint of these
virtues than from that of those vices, which is why the latter are so prevalent.

A.C. Grayling

As the brain changes are continuous, so do all these consciousnesses melt into each other like dissolving views. Properly they are but one protracted
consciousness, one unbroken stream.

William James

Word of the Day

hoi polloi \hoi-puh-LOI\, noun:
The common people generally; the masses.

Lizzie insisted that her children distinguish themselves
from the hoi polloi by scrupulous honesty.

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