The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm... and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My position is a naturalistic one; I see philosophy not as an a priori propaedeutic or groundwork for science, but as continuous w...ith science. I see philosophy and science as in the same boat--a boat which, to revert to Neurath's figure as I so often do, we can rebuild only at sea while staying afloat in it. There is no external vantage point, no first philosophy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The language and traditions common to England and America are like other family bonds: they draw kindred together at the greater c...rises of life, but they also occasion at times a little friction and fault-finding. The groundwork of the two societies is so similar, that each nation, feeling almost at home with the other, and almost able to understand its speech, may instinctively resent what hinders it from feeling at home altogether. Dif ferences will tend to seem anomalies that have slipped in by mistake and through somebody's fault. Each will judge the other by his own standards, not feeling, as in the presence of complete foreigners, that he must make an effort of imagination and put himself in another man's shoes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We should read history as little critically as we consider the landscape, and be more interested by the atmospheric tints and vari...ous lights and shades which the intervening spaces create than by its groundwork and composition.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »