"Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business." – Bertrand Russell
"All warfare is based on deception." – Sun Tzu
"Put your sword back in its place," Jesus said to him, "for all who draw the sword will die by the sword." — Gospel of Matthew 26:52
"There are no atheists in foxholes, this isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes."
— James Morrow
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. – Nietzsche
"Duty! Thou sublime and mighty name that dost embrace nothing charming or insinuating, but requirest submission, and yet seekest not to move the will by threatening aught that would arouse natural aversion or terror, but merely holdest forth a law which of itself finds entrance into the mind, and yet gains reluctant reverence (though not always obedience), a law before which all inclinations are dumb, even though they secretly counter-work it; what origin is there worthy of thee, and where is to be found the root of thy noble descent which proudly rejects all kindred with the inclinations; a root to be derived from which is the indispensable condition of the only worth which men can give themselves?" — Immanuel Kant
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