“Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge.”
Leo Strauss (1899–1973) Classical philosophy specialist and father of neoconservativism
Source: Natural Right and History (1953), p. 12
Carr, Act I
Source: Travesties (1974)
“Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge.”
Leo Strauss (1899–1973) Classical philosophy specialist and father of neoconservativism
Source: Natural Right and History (1953), p. 12
“It is strange with how little notice, good, bad, or indifferent, a man may live and die in London.”
Charles Dickens book Sketches by Boz
Characters, Ch. 1 : Thoughts About People
Sketches by Boz (1836-1837)
Context: It is strange with how little notice, good, bad, or indifferent, a man may live and die in London. He awakens no sympathy in the breast of any single person; his existence is a matter of interest to no one save himself; he cannot be said to be forgotten when he dies, for no one remembered him when he was alive. There is a numerous class of people in this great metropolis who seem not to possess a single friend, and whom nobody appears to care for. Urged by imperative necessity in the first instance, they have resorted to London in search of employment, and the means of subsistence. It is hard, we know, to break the ties which bind us to our homes and friends, and harder still to efface the thousand recollections of happy days and old times, which have been slumbering in our bosoms for years, and only rush upon the mind, to bring before it associations connected with the friends we have left, the scenes we have beheld too probably for the last time, and the hopes we once cherished, but may entertain no more. These men, however, happily for themselves, have long forgotten such thoughts. Old country friends have died or emigrated; former correspondents have become lost, like themselves, in the crowd and turmoil of some busy city; and they have gradually settled down into mere passive creatures of habit and endurance.
Charles Evans Hughes (1862–1948) American judge
Near v. Minnesota, 283 U.S. 697 (1931).
Judicial opinions
Akira Kurosawa book Something Like an Autobiography
Akira Kurosawa 'Something Like an Autobiography (1981)
Something Like an Autobiography (1981)
Jacques Berlinerblau (1966) Associate Professor, Director of the Program for Jewish Civilization, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service,…
Professor Jacques Berlinerblau tells atheists: Stop whining! Washington Post, 17th September 2012 https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/professor-jacques-berlinerblau-tells-atheists-stop-whining/2012/09/14/0fdaf7f4-feab-11e1-98c6-ec0a0a93f8eb_story.html?utm_term=.6145b4fb44a8 <br class="br">Other
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
1910s, Address to the Knights of Columbus (1915)
Richard M. Weaver (1910–1963) American scholar
“Individuality and Modernity,” Essays on Individuality (Philadelphia: 1958), p. 72.