Philosophy Quotes

"This is what leadership looks like when adults refuse to lead."

"Philosophy without nature is merely abstraction."

"The climate crisis is a test of human character and values."

"We are at a civilizational crossroads on climate change."

"If there is value in philosophical speculation concerning how we ought to live, there is equal value in the effort to live as we ought."

"Civilization is not, as they sometimes seem to suppose, the enslavement of a stable and peaceful man-nature relationship by unstable and violent people in the name of progress."

"Land ethic is a process, not a product."

"Leopold believed that our separation from nature is our greatest impoverishment."

"There is a clear irony in our attitudes toward the land we have chosen to dominate."

"Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land."

"To be ecological is to understand that every action is connected to every other action."

"A nation without culture is a nation without soul."

"Philosophy should not merely contemplate the world but help transform it."

"A man is defined not by his possessions but by his character."

"Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity."

"Man is not merely the sum of his reflexes."

"The Negro is not. Any more than the white man."

"Humanism must cease to be limited and petty."

"The body of history does not determine history."

"Totality is the enemy of truth."

"We seek a new humanism."

"Consciousness is a social product."

"To speak of negritude is to speak of humanity and universality."

"The beauty of a culture lies in its particularity and universality combined."

"The marketplace of ideas is where freedom is truly tested."

"Cultural identity is the foundation upon which all other forms of dignity rest."

"To be human is to be capable of both great cruelty and great compassion."

"The intellectual is always, or should be, an outsider"

"The modern intellectual has been reduced to the level of an entertainer"

"The study of philosophy is the study of how to live"