Jim Rohn Quotes

There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.

Knowledge which ... transcends the bounds, the prejudices and pre-judgments of any one society and culture is not an illusion but, on the contrary, a glorious and luminous reality. Just how it was achieved remains subject to debate.

In America, we debate everything except capitalism. If there is an institution in your society that is above criticism, you’re giving it a free pass.

We'll have to avoid the perils of false equivelance, quoting a person on each side as if there was a genuine debate when we knoow that there isn't.

Philosophy is everybody's business.

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.

Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it is neither more abstract nor more difficult.

I don't like debates anyway. I have never debated anyone, I think they're a very masculine form - like an intellectual prizefight. They let you know who the better debater is but they don't really tell you about the issue. It's all heat, but no light.

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.

The purpose of debates is to explore issues, not end them.

Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.

The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.

Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.

The majority of parents are poor psychologists and give their children the most questionable moral trainings. It is perhaps in this domain that one realized most how keenly how immoral it can be to believe too much in morality, and how much more precious is a little humanity than all the rules in the world.

Your children will go to public school and they will be trained for somewhere around 15,000 hours in ungodly secular thought. And then they'll go to Sunday school and they'll color a picture of Noah's ark. And you think that's going to stand against the lies that they are being told?

What no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.

In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life.

We must re-center philosophy within our frame of reference which I think is the way to deal with it.

It might be plausibly maintained, that in almost every one of the leading controversies, past or present, in social philosophy, both sides were in the right in what they affirmed, though wrong in what they denied.

I'd just like to see thinking come back in style. I haven't heard a new idea in eight years. Let's get ordinary people arguing and talking again. I want to trigger new circuits in their nervous systems. That's the philosopher's job and I am the most important philosopher at this time.

When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.

Socrates used to call the opinions of the many by the name of Lamiae, bugbears to frighten children.