…two key aspects of philosophical theoria. There is the theion and the oraio; the divine that we are seeking to locate within the real, and the act of seeing that contemplates it: there is that which one tries to understand and that with which one tries to accede to understanding (the instruments one employs to get there).

— Luc Ferry, A Brief History of Thought

Yet both hypocritical anti-imperialists and more impartial pacifists frequently conflate militarism – the policy of building armed forces and using them aggressively to advance national interests against other states – with deterrence and just war theories created to counter militarism.

— Shaun O’Dwyer, Mohist Anti-Militarism & Just War Theory

People see violence as moral, not immoral: across the world and throughout history, more people have been murdered to mete out justice than to satisfy greed.

— Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now

Buddhism and other ethics of compassion are indeed a kind of wheelbarrow, in which we can place our sorrows and defects without displacing their importance (their weight), but allowing us to move.

— Anja Publications, Philosophy Now

Committing to productivity alone is like committing to only inhaling, never exhaling. That kind of commitment will kill you.

— Dan Charnas, Everything in Its Place