philosophybits: “Love is wise – Hatred is foolish.” — Bertrand Russell, BBC interview on “Face to Face” (1959 ..read more

“As long as blow is followed by counter-blow, catastrophe is perpetuated.” - Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 33 ..read more

philosophybits: “The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.” — F. H. Bradley, Aphorisms ..read more

“Polemic, or the art of throwing eggs, is … as highly skilled a job as, say, boxing… keep your face straight and throw them well! The difficulty is: not to make superfluous noises or gestures, which don’t harm the other man but only yourself.” - Ludwig Wittgenstein, in Recollections of Wittgenstein, Rush Rhees, ed ..read more

philosophybits: “If you are not already dead, forgive. Rancor is heavy, it is worldly; leave it on earth: die light.” — Jean-Paul Sartre, The Devil and the Good Lord ..read more

“Feeling (for a particular art, science, person, etc.) is divided spirit, is self-restriction: hence a result of self-creation and self-destruction.” - Friedrich Schlegel, Critical Fragments ..read more

philosophybits: “The world of immediate experience — the world in which we find ourselves living — must be comprehended, transformed, even subverted in order to become that which it really is.” — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man ..read more

“No moral question presents itself to the child as long as he is still incapable of recognizing himself in the past or seeing himself in the future. It is only when the moments of his life begin to be organized into behaviour that he can decide and choose. The value of the chosen end is confirmed and, reciprocally, the genuineness of the choice is manifested concretely through patience, courage, and fidelity.” - Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity ..read more

philosophybits: “Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.” — Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics ..read more

“Civilization does not lie in a greater or lesser degree of refinement, but in an awareness shared by a whole people. And this awareness is never refined. It is even quite simple and straightforward.” - Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1935-1942 ..read more