Showing posts with label modern philosophy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label modern philosophy. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Quote CIV


"A little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."


-Sir Francis Bacon

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Quote #99: law and ideology

"It is admittedly somewhat ironic that legal certainty increases precisely in virtue of an element that, although moderating the ideal demands on legal theory, is the most susceptible to ideological distortions." - Jurgen Habermas, Between Facts and Norms (transl. by William Rehg, MIT Press: 1998), pg. 221.

Monday, September 14, 2009

Quote #63: on emotions


"All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own."

- Goethe (1749-1832), German philosopher and writer.

St. Augustine (by Sandro Botticelli)

St. Ignatius Loyola (by Francisco Zurbaran)

Benjamin Rush (by Charles Willson Peale)

Patrick Henry at the Virginia House of Burgesses (by Henry Rothermel)

Edmund Burke (by Sir Joshua Reynolds)

Samuel Adams (by John Singleton Copley)

Alexander Hamilton (by John Trumbull)