Ralph Dumain: The Autodidact Project: Site Map: Philosophical Quotations

“THE AUTODIDACT PROJECT”
by Ralph Dumain

SITE MAP:

PHILOSOPHICAL QUOTATIONS
(begun 2/23/2000)

Quotes of the day and for every day

"Man is the outcome of the greatest revolt in the history of matter." — Henri Wald

"We are the bees of the invisible." — Rainer Maria Rilke

"Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?" — Ralph Ellison

M. Bakunin on Materialism and Idealism
Rainer Maria Rilke on Being and the Transitory
G.W.F. Hegel on the Revolution of Consciousness
Max Beckmann on Painting, the Intellect, the Senses, Individuality, & the Abstract
Gaston Bachelard on Surrationalism & a Revolution of Reason
T.W. Adorno on Solidarity and Isolation
C.L.R. James on the (Post)Modern Intellectual & the Division of Labor (1950)
T.W. Adorno on Zen Buddhism
T.W. Adorno on Spengler, Heidegger, and the Intellectual's Capitulation to Power
Bruno Bauer on Christianity, Alienation, and the Dialectics of Religious Consciousness
NEW: DEEP THOUGHTS FOR INTERNATIONAL WORKERS' DAY
(1 May 2000)
FRIEDRICH ENGELS ON EMPIRICISM, SPIRITUALISM, SCIENCE, MYSTICISM, AND PHILOSOPHICAL NAIVETE
V.I. LENIN ON IDEALISM & THE SPIRAL OF KNOWLEDGE
NEW! Simplex, Complex, & Multiplexity according to Samuel R. Delaney (5/16/2000)
FOR FUN: How Our Sun Warps Our Brains (5/24/2000)
Sigfried Kracauer on History and Non-simultaneity (5/26/2000)
Franz Kafka's Non-identity: Jewish Humor in Extremis (6/1/2000)
Albert Einstein on Intellectuals and the Masses,
Specialization and the Division of Labor, and the Quality of Life (6/2/2000)
William Blake on Individuals and States (6/3/2000)
Failure to Create: Wisdom from The Outer Limits (6/7/2000)
The Magnetized Moment: The Innermost Secret of Human Development
(from the play Equus) (6/8/2000)
Beyond Deduction and Induction: Towards Perfect Truth
According to Edgar Allen Poe (6/8/2000)
Albert Einstein on the Secret of Western Science (6/8/2000)
William Blake on the Dialectical Moment of Renewal (6/10/2000)
Yevgeny Zamyatin on Revolution, Entropy, Dogma and Heresy (7/29/2000)
John Coltrane on Black Music and Affirmative Philosophy (8/2/2000)
What Is Cynical Reason? Peter Sloterdijk Explains (8/9/2000)
On Man's Cowardice: Don Juan Debates the Devil
from George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman (9/1/2000)
Cynthia Ozick on "Envy; Or, Yiddish In America" (On Labor & Poetry) (9/7/2000)
Why Koshchei the Deathless Knows Neither Pride nor Love (9/8/2000)
C.L.R. James on the Secret of Hegel's Dialectic (9/11/2000)
George Bernard Shaw on Conviction & Style (9/13/2000)
Georg Lukacs on Nazism & Irrationalism: The Unity of Cynicism & Credulity (9/15/2000)
George W. Stocking, Jr. on the Autodidact & Intellectual Traditions (9/22/2000)
George Bernard Shaw on the Artist-philosopher (9/23/2000)
V.I. Lenin: Their Abstraction & Ours (10/26/2000)
William Blake's Birthday Commemoration: Innocence Must Be Organized!
(William Blake: 28 November 1757 - 12 August 1827) (11/25/2000)
On Job's Dilemma: God's Injustice (from the play J.B. by Archibald Macleish) (12/22/2000)
C.L.R. James on West Indian Writers vs. T.S. Eliot & Jean-Paul Sartre: the New World & the Old (12/25/2000)
Leon Trotsky on the Culture of Fascism (12/25/2000)
What Improvising Musicians Do by William Hooker (4/5/2001)
Friedrich Engels on the American Mentality (5/1/2001)
Karl Marx vs. Cynical Reason: On Suppositions of Naked Self-Interest (5/20/2001, part II added 7/27/2002)
Noam Chomsky on Expertise & Credentials (6/2/2001)
Romare Bearden on Black American Culture vs. the European Avante-Garde (6/3/2001)
Ralph Ellison on the Hidden Political Meaning of Cultural Symbolism (6/10/2001)
Duke Ellington Communicates Beyond Category
Duke Ellington: "We, Too, Sing 'America'"
Jeff Schmidt on Amateur & Professional Shop Talk (6/21/2001)
"When God Was a Woman" by Bob Black (7/30/2001)
Quotable Quotes from The German Ideology by Marx & Engels (8/26/2001)
Andre Breton Out of His Element, by Edwin Denby (9/8/2001)
"Negativity" by Henri Wald (9/8/2001)
Cynicism & Conformity, by Max Horkheimer (9/10/2001)
Red Jacket vs. Christianity: The Native American as Rationalist (9/17/2001)
Chief Adario on the White Man's Morals (9/26/2001)
"Skies of America" by Ornette Coleman (10/4/2001)
René Magritte on the Revolutionary Artist vs. Folk Art & Stalinism (12/1/2001)
Hegel on Number Mysticism: Pythagoreanism, Astrology, I Ching (12/9/2001)
"Myth Today" by Roland Barthes (1/15/2002)
"Writing the Truth: Five Difficulties" by Bertolt Brecht (1/19/2002)
"Ironic Detachment as an Escape from Routine" by Christopher Lasch (1/20/2002)
Adolph L. Reed, Jr. on Organicism, Authoritarianism, Clericalism, & Black Politics (4/26/2002)
"Philosophy and the History of Philosophy" by Jonathan Rée (6/19/2002)
Explanation Explained by René Magritte (6/22/2002)
"Dialectics Not a Sociology of Knowledge" by Theodor W. Adorno (6/25/2002)
T.W. Adorno on Theory, Practice, & Moral Philosophy (9/11/2002)
Fichte on Philosophy as the Mind's Self-Mastery (10/3/2002)
Science, Society, and Life: Extract from "Private Property and Communism" from the Economic-Philosophical Manuscripts of Karl Marx (1844) (10/26/2002)
T.W. Adorno on the Division of Philosophy & Labor (2/19/2003)
Max Horkheimer on Materialism vs Positivism & Metaphysics (4/28/2003)
The Philosophy of Rahsaan Roland Kirk (5/19/2003)
The Late Vitalism of Wilhelm Reich: Selected Quotations (7/5/2003)
Pondering the Spirit World with Seinfeld (7/21/2003)
Lorraine Hansberry's Humanism (9/20/2003)
Friedrich Schlegel on Philosophy in Music (10/29/2003)
C.L.R. James on Descartes & the Division of Labor (10/29/2003)
Jeffrey Herf on Reactionary Modernism & Dialectic of Enlightenment (11/18/2003)
Some Reflections of Roy Wood Sellars (12/1/2003)
The Everlasting Gospel (variant) by William Blake (12/21/2003)
“Resignation” (Excerpts) by Theodor W. Adorno (12/22/2003)
Ruler of the Universe as Solipsist: from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1/20/2004)
Big Bill Broonzy vs Folk Ideology (3/2/2004)
E.P. Thompson on William Blake & Intellectual Traditions (3/6/2004)
Alvin Gouldner on Intellectuals & the Social Totality (6/25/2004)
Carnap on Wittgenstein & Esperanto (9/4/2004)
Eric Dolphy Speaks of Music (with sound clip link) (11/8/2004)
Marx & Engels on Skepticism & Praxis (6/13/2005, rev. 5/14/09)
T.W. Adorno on Kant, the Division of Labor & Restriction of Reason (8/5/2005)
The Vacillation of Ideology (Excerpt) by Étienne Balibar (8/13/2005)
Philosophy and Critical Theory (Excerpt: Philosophy and Class Society) by Herbert Marcuse (9/20/2005)
The Concept of Essence (Excerpt: Descartes) by Herbert Marcuse (3/5/10)
The Concept of Essence (Excerpt: Phenomenology) by Herbert Marcuse (10/1/2005)
Marx & Engels on the Science of History (12/28/2005)
On Revolution in Epistemology by V. Kurayev (2/28/2006)
Engels contra Holism (3/2/2006)
Richard Wright Defines The Outsider (3/4/2006)
The Philosophical Critique of Science and the Neopositivist Critique of Philosophy in the Weimar Republic by Helmut Dubiel (3/12/2006)
Maurice Cornforth on William Blake vs. the Fetishism of Language (3/14/2006)
Marx's Notebooks on Epicurean Philosophy (Extracts on Total Philosophy, Praxis, Historiography) (4/21/2006)
Heinrich Heine on Spinoza and Our Lenses (6/24/2006)
Heinrich Heine on German Romantic Orientalism (6/24/2006)
Hegel on the Owl of Minerva (7/4/2006)
William Blake Works for the Future (7/12/2006)
Leibniz on the Universal Characteristic (9/14/2006)
Adorno on Metaphysics, Philosophical Questions, History, Sociology, & Culture (9/19/2006, expanded 11/4/07)
Brecht on Theatre: Entertainment, Instruction, Science, Dialectics (11/13/06)
“La Vizaĝo” [The Face] de Emmanuel Levinas (12/2/2006)
Swami Agehananda Bharati on Hindu Fascism & Western Infatuation (12/19/2006)
Adorno on Brecht (12/23/2006)
Engels on the British Ideology: Empiricism, Agnosticism, & “Shamefaced Materialism” (2/18/07)
Engels (& Borges) on Carlyle (2/18/07)
Lukács on Wittgenstein (3/24/07)
Scepticism & Fideism by Richard H. Popkin (7/24/07)
Adorno on Truth, Survival, Consolation & Freedom of Thought (11/4/07)
Some Thoughts of Paul Valéry on Philosophy (12/12/07)
A Different Kind of Criticism [of Religion: Excerpt] by Max Horkheimer (2/6/08)
Concerning Resentment by Max Horkheimer (2/8/08)
Adorno on Metaphysical Experience, Mysticism & Tradition (2/21/08)
The Village Atheist (Excerpts) by E. Haldeman-Julius (3/1/08)
On Bentham and Coleridge (Excerpts) by John Stuart Mill (3/2/08)
One-Dimensional Man: From Operationalism to Zen by Herbert Marcuse (3/2/08)
One-Dimensional Man: Classical Philosophy, the Division of Labor, Abstraction & Practice by Herbert Marcuse (3/2/08)
One-Dimensional Man: A New Science? by Herbert Marcuse (3/5/08)
The Popes Combat Modernity in the Bourgeois Century (4/6/08)
C. P. Snow on the 'Two Cultures': Literary Modernism, Irrationalism & Reactionary Politics (10/14/08)
Hegel on Daoism (Taoism) (1/9/09)
W. E. B. Du Bois on Religion (5/5/09)
Marx on Science, Religion, Historical Method (5/8/09)
Karl Marx on Religion: Sources & Quotations (5/14/09)
Adorno on Workers vs. Intellectuals & the Meeting of Extremes (5/30/09)
Karl Marx on Comedy (8/7/09)
Gaston Waringhien pri Proverboj (8/26/09)
Cynthia Ozick on "Envy; Or, Yiddish In America" (The Writer Jokes in Hell, with Esperanto, Ro, & Volapük) (9/21/09)
Ernest Drezen pri la Interna Ideo de Esperantismo (10/18/09)
el «Nekonato: La Zamenhofa Homaranismo» de André Caubel (10/18/09)
Adorno on Wittgenstein & the Dialectical Essence of Philosophy (1/1/10)
The Student Movement vs. . . . Mark Starr? (Kenneth Rexroth) (1/8/10)
Lenin on Seventy Marxes (1/15/10)
Marx on Capital, Machinery, Universality, Descartes: From Worship to Instrumentalization of Nature (1/15/10)
Adorno on Paul Valéry & Cartesian Rationalism & Irrationalism in French Philosophy (2/3/10)
Jean Anouilh’s Becket: Choice Quotes (2/4/10)
Leibniz & Games (with illustrations & web links) (2/9/10)
Curt J. Ducasse on Wisdom, Norms, Theory, & Pragmatism (2/19/10)
Herbert Marcuse on Descartes, Kant, Hegel: Soul, Mind-Body Duality, & Affirmative Culture (3/11/10)
Hegel on Ars Combinatoria & Characteristica Universalis (3/28/10)
Renford Bambrough on Distinctions & Connections in Philosophy (4/3/10)
From Paul Klee’s “Creative Credo” (1920) (5/18/10)
Marx on Kant (6/27/10)
Wittgenstein on Esperanto/ Wittgenstein pri Esperanto (7/23/10)
Albert Einstein on the Limits of Scientific Description (8/12/10)
“Mathematical Games: Counting Systems and the Relationship between Numbers and the Real World” by Martin Gardner
[Excerpt including acknowledgments for solutions to Baker's Solitaire problem] (11/1/10)
Ideas, Intellectuals, and Structures of Dissent: Excerpts—1 by J. P. Nettl (12/3/10)
Plekhanov on “Bourgeois” Science (1/13/11)
Sacred Languages & Hierarchies vs. Vernaculars & Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson (2/2/11)
Sander L. Gilman on Nazism, Paranoia, & Language
(Excerpt from Jewish Self-Hatred: Anti-Semitism and the Hidden Language of the Jews) (2/21/11)
Manny Fried at a Crossroads (Excerpt from Memoir) (6/21/11)
Richard Wright’s Outsider, Negroes & Flying Saucers (7/21/11)
Max Horkheimer on the Duality of Scientism and Spiritualism in Bourgeois Society (9/6/11)
Graham Greene’s Entrenationo (1) (9/6/11)
Graham Greene’s Entrenationo (2) (9/30/11)
Graham Greene’s Entrenationo (3) (9/9/11)
Georg Lukács on Relativism, Feuerbach, Nietzsche & Spengler (11/9/11)
“Unpacking my Library”: Walter Benjamin’s Magic Encyclopedia (12/2/11)
Leibniz on Language, Race, and Nation by Peter Fenves (12/31/11)
Franz Mehring on Nietzsche vs. Socialism (1/16/12)
John-Paul Sartre on Paul Nizan (2/11/12)
Philosophy in Aden by Paul Nizan (2/15/12)
Walter Benjamin on Monadology (2/29/12)
Sándor Szathmári pri / on Julio Baghy (ĉerpaĵo kun angla traduko de R. Dumain) (5/9/12)
Giorgio Silfer pri Kritiko de Esperanta Literaturo: Internacia Kulturo aŭ Subkulturo? (6/18/12)
Sebastiano Timpanaro on Giacomo Leopardi & Materialist Pessimism (6/27/12)
The Metaphysics of Tragedy: Excerpts by Georg Lukács (10/22/12)
Soviet Aesthetics & Humor: The Societalists & Naturists by Edward M. Swiderski 3/23/13)
Adorno to Bloch on the Blockage of Utopia (4/14/13)
Adorno on Philosophy, Formalism, & Artificial Intelligence (6/15/13)
Refusing “Positive Thinking” After Auschwitz by Theodor W. Adorno (6/15/13)
Theodor W. Adorno on Progress in Philosophy (6/30/13)
Ballad of Gresham College (1663) (8/1/13)
Jean-Paul Sartre on Camus, Empiricism, Literary Description, & the Absurd (9/17/13)
Jean-Paul Sartre on Camus’ Stranger as Mental vs. Physical Being (9/21/13)
Curvaceous Enlightenment by Claudio Magris (10/5/13)
Louis Althusser on Hegel’s Expressive Totality (10/18/13)
George Cary Eggleston on Science Fiction & Jules Verne (1874) (10/22/13)
Russell Jacoby for Theodor Adorno, against Fredric Jameson (3/12/13)

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