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Baruch Spinoza Quotes

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: dutch
Birth: November 24, 1632 - February 21, 1677

Topics

Religion Philosophy Know Teach How

We founded Palantir in 2003-2004 because we perceived a giant gap between how the defense and intelligence community was harnessing technology to achieve its goals and what we had seen was possible in Silicon Valley over the last decade.

Goals Technology Community Achieve

I thought that ending Glass-Steagall was a mistake.

Mistake Ending Thought

In secondary school I was floating - I wasn't passionate about anything. I did a little sport, but it was pretty joyless because the competitiveness was too much to bear.

Andrew Garfield

School Too Much Bear Passionate

Authors all have at least one thing in common, which is that when we finally get finished copies of our books, we get giddy as kindergartners. We touch them constantly, and build towers with them, and take pictures of our cats and dogs reading them.

Cats Reading Pictures Build Touch

I stayed in New York City for the first time, I'd always wanted to do that.

Time New York City New First Time

Now I'm no biologist, but it seems to make a lot of sense that slow lives, as well as being enjoyable, are long lives. One only has to think of the example of the tortoise for proof of this theory from the animal world.

Animal World Think Slow Long Now

You are the plays you write. How on earth could you write them otherwise? They're projections of your own predilections.

You Earth Write Own Your How

The fate of Syria hangs in the balance, but it is entirely possible that the fall of the Assad regime will result in anarchy and cause Syria to turn into a second Afghanistan, a base for anti-Israel terrorism.

Martin Van Creveld

Balance Fate Result Fall Possible

Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.

Good Communication Music People You

I don't know where, or by whom, Judge Wapner was raised, but my parents taught me, when you don't have something nice to say about someone, say nothing.

Parents Me Judge Someone You Nice

I love the Internet, and I love wasting time on the Internet - even though it sometimes ends up being not being a waste of time.

Love Time Internet Sometimes Up

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

Music First Playing Started Sense

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