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“But we Yanks have a way with unwinnable wars: we simply declare them won, go home, celebrate the victory, and live happily ever after. (We live happily ever after.)” – David Lewis (“Individuation by Acquaintance and by Stipulation”, The Philosophical Review 92:1 (1983), 17)
“…and of foolish people those who by nature are thoughtless and live by their senses alone are brutish, like some races of the distant foreigners…” – Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics VII; revised Oxford translation, 1815)
“So much then for the voluntary movements of animal bodies… These bodies, however, display in certain members involuntary movements too… By involuntary I mean motions of the heart and of the penis; for often upon an image arising and without express mandate of the intellect these parts are moved.” – Aristotle (Movements of Animals XI; revised Oxford translation, 1095)
“I would rather lose something by way of elegance of language than make scholastic usage even more difficult through the least unintelligibility.” – Immanuel Kant (Guyer & Wood translation, 413)
“[Bo Schembechler] was done in by the organ that defined him, his heart.”
- from the ABC broadcast of the Michigan/OSU game.
