A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose. - Immanuel Kant
A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole. Like philosophy, such a venture has no rational excuse, and is at best but a brave stupidity; but let us hope that, like philosophy, it will always lure some rash spirits into its fatal depths. - Will Durant
History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil. - Will Durant
Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt -- particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms. - Will Durant
In a little while you will have forgotten everything; in a little while everything will have forgotten you.
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