Friday, October 17, 2008

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Sam Harris - The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason [Audiobook]

Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.

Friday, August 22, 2008

Saturday, June 7, 2008

Jean-Paul Sartre - Existentialism and Human Emotions

I am responsible for everything, in fact, except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. [...] To make myself passive in the world, to refuse to act upon things and upon Others is still to choose myself, and suicide is one mode among others of being-in-the-world. [...] "Why was I born?" or curse the day of my birth or declare that I did not ask to be born, for these various attitudes toward my birth-i.e, toward the fact that I realize a presence in the world-are absolutely nothing else but ways of assuming this birth in full responsibility and of making it mine.

Saturday, May 31, 2008

Jean-Paul Sartre - Existentialism Is a Humanism

Man is not only that which he conceives himself to be, but that which he wills himself to be, and since he conceives of himself only after being thrown into existence, man is nothing other than what he makes of himself.

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Bertrand Russell - The Problems of Philosophy

Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our intellectual imagination and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation; but above all because, through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind is also rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.