"That Hegel is a metaphysician, and that he thinks metaphysics is fundamental to philosophy, is plain enough from his definition of philosophy."

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Source : "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.

Frederick C. Beiser

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“The tide has changed. You have to be able to improvise in today's NFL.”
“I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre, art, music, politics and philosophy.”
“God's revelation... unmasks our illusions about ourselves. It exposes our pride, our individualism, our self-centeredness - in short, our sin. But worship also offers forgiveness, healing, transformation, motivation, and courage to work in the world for God's justice and peace - in short, salvation in its largest sense.”
“The chief difficulty is that God demands of us that we live by faith: faith in God, God's sovereignty over the future, God's sufficiency for the present; while, on the other hand, the various other gods whom we can serve appeal to us in terms of the things which we can see and the forces which we can calculate. The choice between the life of faith and the life of sight is a choice between a God whom only faith can apprehend and gods whom one has only to see to understand.”
“[On Chinese Internet,] freedom is a targeted and precise window.”
“If things are going well, religion and legislation are beneficial; if not, they are of no avail.”
“It is fundamentally important that Grasso resign so that the New York Stock Exchange can restore its moral authority.”
“The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.”

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