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Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to s...

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This capacity for objectivity and absoluteness amounts to an existential — and “preventive” — refuta...

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Frithjof SchuonLogic and Transcendence

The problem with classical disembodied scientific realism is that it takes two intertwined and insep...

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George LakoffPhilosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought

If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the...

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The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence -- even men...

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Jacques MaritainAn Introduction to Philosophy

Relativism poses as humble by saying: “We are not smart enough to know what the truth is—or if there...

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John Piper (artist)Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God

Relativism poses as humble by saying: “We are not smart enough to know what the truth is—or if there...

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John Piper (artist)Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God

Relativism poses as humble by saying: “We are not smart enough to know what the truth is—or if there...

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John Piper (theologian)Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God

Relativism poses as humble by saying: “We are not smart enough to know what the truth is—or if there...

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John Piper (theologian)Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God

We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of ...

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Every little thing makes a difference, whether you decide it yourself or whether it’s pure accident....

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The truth is, Jung has brought back one member of the old duality, unreason, with a new name; it is ...

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Philip RieffThe Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud

In post-Nietzschean spirit, the West appears to be busily undermining its own erstwhile metaphysical...

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Certain American uses of deconstruction, Derrida has observed, work to ensure ‘an institutional clos...

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Terry EagletonLiterary Theory: An Introduction

Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.

You heard him say it? 'Pain's the only evil I know about.' You heard that?"The monk nodded solemnly....

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[Professor Greene's] reaction to GAMAY, as published in the Yale Daily News, fairly took one's breat...

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We find that in the absence of demonstrable truth, the best we can do is to exercise the greatest di...

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William F. Buckley, Jr.God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of 'Academic Freedom'

Are we truly committed to the notion that ideals and values vary and alter in accordance with changi...

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Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.