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Knowledge of certain propositions go beyond experience because of their universal applicability, or because their subject matter transcends ...

“The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be we...

In its primary sense, rationality is a normative concept that philosophers have generally tried to characterize in such a way that, for any...

“A good poem helps to change the shape and significance of the universe,  helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world ...

“The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no...

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginn...

Thoughts of retirement pop up "every day," he says. But nothing's imminent. "I think while I've got the opportunity a...