A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.

A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.

When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense. But men of intellect will believe anything - if it appeals to their ego, their vanity, their sense of self-importance.

Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.

Zen: the sound of the ax chopping. Chopping logic.

The function of an ideal is not to be realized but, like that of the North Star, to serve as a guiding point.

I do not believe in personal immortality. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.

The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.

With the neutron bomb, which destroys life but not property, capitalism has found the weapon of its dreams.

Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.