The Coloured Universe

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Bertrand Russell

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What happiness would it be for those who live among us, if our external appearance were always a true mirror of our hearts; if decorum were but virtue; if the maxims we professed were the rules of our conduct; and if real philosophy were inseparable from the title of a philosopher!

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Simone de Beauvoir

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

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Alfred North Whitehead

So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century.

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How can you answer a man who tells you that he would rather obey god than men, and who is therefore sure to deserve heaven in cutting your throat?

Philosophical Dictionary

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Thomas Hobbes

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that mislike it, heresy: and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.

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통찰력이 돋보이는 구절들이 많다,

엉터리 번역본을 잡고,

보낸 20대의 시간들이 좀 속상하긴 하지만,

중요한건 정신을 만나는 것,

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At the behest of the criterion of authenticity, much that was once thought to make up the very fabric of culture has come to seem of little account, mere fantasy or ritual, or downright falsification. Conversely, much that culture traditionally condemned and sought to exclude is accorded a considerable moral authority by reason of the authenticity claimed for it, for example, disorder, violence, unreason.

Lionel Trilling

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그랬군, '왜'인지 좀 더 찾아봐야겠다,

혹, 또, 역사의 간지니 뭐니, 그런 쉽고 맥빠지는 답을 듣게 될까,

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  너희들에게 적이 있다면 악을 선으로 갚는 일이 없도록 하라. 그것은 그들을 부끄럽게 만드는 일이다. 그 대신에 그가 너희들에게 어떤 좋은 일을 했음을 입증하여 보여주어라.
  그리고 부끄러워하기보다는 차라리 화를 내라! 그리고 누가 너희들을 저주할 때 축복하려 들지 말라. 그런 것은 내 맘에 들지 않는다. 차라리 얼마쯤 같이 저주해주어라!
  너희들에게 커다란 불 하나가 자행되면 서둘러서 작은 불 다섯 개를 저질러 앙갚음을 하라! 혼자서 불의를 참고 견디는 자는 보기에도 끔찍하다.
  너희들은 알고 있었는가? 나누어진 불의는 절반의 정의다. 그리고 불의를 견뎌낼 수 있는 사람이 그 불의를 받아들여야 한다.
  작은 앙갚음을 하는 것이 앙갚음을 전혀 하지 않는 것보다는 그래도 인간적이다.

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It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

The Unknowable