Auguste Comte Quotes

Every intellectual attitude is latently political.

Philosophy is no more a barrier against political disaster than it is against plague.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

I think politics is a higher build in life. You know? If you diffuse under normal, common sense of a story, you make it political. If you choose a conventional way for a story, or refuse to use the conventional way, you make it political.

Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.

There are aspects of '24' where I love its politics and aspects where I hate them.

We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product.

Politicians, ideologists, theologians and philosophers try time and again to provide solutions with nothing remaining: prefab solved problems.

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

The fundamental basis of ethics must be chosen in some non-scientific way.

The word—right—should be excluded from political language, as the word—cause—from the language of philosophy. Both are theological and metaphysical conceptions; and the former is as immoral and subversive as the latter is unmeaning and sophistical.

I dread the reveries of you philosophic politicians.

Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister--corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all we hold dear. The rest of the time everybody assumes that they are hard at work somewhere down in the sub-basement, keeping those foundations in good repair. Nobody much cares what brand of intellectual duct tape is being used.

In politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

The political value of a word must be measured not in terms of its linguistic coherence but in the way people use it.

Politics is a literal game. Every word must represent a strict view - or be so abstract as to be meaningless.

Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.

I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out.

To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.

The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.

'National Review' and 'The Weekly Standard' are both left-wing magazines, and I want to destroy them also.

As the culture war is about irreconcilable beliefs about God and man, right and wrong, good and evil, and is at root a religious war, it will be with us so long as men are free to act on their beliefs.

There's politics in all aspects of our daily lives.

Students should learn about the long-standing values of truth, beauty, and goodness, think hard about them, and interrogate them skillfully.

When I listen to a fascist, like Rush Limbaugh or Tom Delay or somebody like that, they help me define my views. I ask myself, 'Why do I feel so strongly the opposite of what that guy is saying? He's not stupid. He's evil, but why is he evil?'