If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth, and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth.
Without claiming to be exhaustive, I maintain that every philosophy reproduces within itself, in one way or another, the conflict in which it finds itself compromised and caught up in the outside world.
The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.
I don't really believe in dialogue; I am too Nietzschean for that. We need to have a warrior conception of philosophy.
Only in the struggle between two philosophies can the weapon of brutal force, persistently and ruthlessly applied, lead to a decision for the side it supports.
In our country [US] equality means your liberal and freedom means you're conservative. That tension is there and it can't be handled on its own terms. It can't be handled as you go out of that and go back into natural institutions or natural law or divine revelation. Something outside of the system has to tell you the system has gone wrong.
The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: "Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side.
If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens.
If you put into one room everyone who considered themselves a Nietzschean, there would be a bloodbath.
The intellectual tension that seems to work its way through this society almost like fat through meat is the tension between scientific reductionism and the deeply felt intuition of most people that there is a spiritual dimension, or a hidden dimension, or a transcendental dimension.
Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.
If there's good, strong evidence from science that such and such is the case and this is contrary to Buddhism, then we will change.
We live in a war of two antagonistic ethical philosophies, the ethical policy taught in the books and schools, and the success policy.
My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.
The duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world, and the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same struggle reproduced on another level.
In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible.
