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I'm fascinated by Comte's clear-eyed analysis of what was wrong with modern society, which is that you've got industrial capitalism on one side and ro...more

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Katie Price is no exception. She, too, is - in a distinctive way - a philosopher. Partially, Katie Price's philosophy is one of extraordinary confiden...more

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The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art for...more

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It is not only the hostility of others that may prevent us from questioning the status quo. Our will to doubt can be just as powerfully sapped by an i...more

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The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.

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I'm not an academic philosopher, and don't agree with the way the universities approach the subject. I'm a philosopher only in the very loose sense of...more

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The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.

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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.

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The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true.

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[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of worshipping false gods, of failing to understand ...more

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What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their bea...more

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Far from rejecting outright any hierarchy of success or failure, philosophy instead reconfigures the judging process, lending legitimacy to theidea th...more

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Art was the very antithesis of crass moralism.

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Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awarene...more

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It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisi...more