Quotes

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

Charles Baudelaire

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

Giordano Bruno

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.

Josh Billings

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Albert Camus

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests, Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
Alain Badiou

Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious.

Louis Althusser

If the notion of necessary existence is divided into a multitude, it must be divided in one of the following two ways: either it is divided according to the manner of its division by differentiae or according to the manner of its division by accident.

Avicenna

A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.

Alain Badiou

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

Giordano Bruno