// JavaScript Document - Random Quote Display //store the quotations in arrays quotes = new Array(28); authors = new Array(28); quotes[0] = "Love calls gatherings like these together."; authors[0] = "Agathon, Plato's The Symposium"; quotes[1] = "We still do not know where the urge for truth comes from."; authors[1] = "Friedrich Nietzsche"; quotes[2] = "The will to truth is in need of a critique— let us thus define our own task—the value of truth is for once to be experimentally called into question."; authors[2] = "Friedrich Nietzsche"; quotes[3] = "To comprehend what is, this is the task of philosophy, because what is, is reason."; authors[3] = "G. W. F. Hegel"; quotes[4] = "If you say to yourself in such matters: 'who am I to judge?' you are already lost."; authors[4] = "Hannah Arendt"; quotes[5] = "To impose Reason on an entire society is a paradoxical and scandalous idea."; authors[5] = "Herbert Marcuse"; quotes[6] = "Critical theory's interest in the liberation of humanity binds it to certain ancient truths."; authors[6] = "Herbert Marcuse"; quotes[7] = "Nothing worse could happen to these efforts of mine than that someone should make the unexpected discovery that there neither was, nor could be, any a priori knowledge at all. But there is no danger of this."; authors[7] = "Immanuel Kant"; quotes[8] = "The question arises whether the standards that are valid for us may also claim to be valid in and for themselves"; authors[8] = "Jürgen Habermas"; quotes[9] = "Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics."; authors[9] = "Jane Addams"; quotes[10] = "We have to create a desire for the truth, in ourselves and in others."; authors[10] = "Jean-Paul Sartre"; quotes[11] = "Critique is not merely of a given social practice or a certain horizon of intelligibility within which practices and institutions appear, it also implies that I come into question for myself."; authors[11] = "Judith Butler"; quotes[12] = "To know the limits of acknowledgement is to know even this fact in a limited way; as a result, it is to experience the very limits of knowing."; authors[12] = "Judith Butler "; quotes[13] = "The freedom that can be attained in philosophizing cannot be handed down by the doctrine of an institution. Only as an individual can one become a philosopher."; authors[13] = "Karl Jaspers"; quotes[14] = "The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it."; authors[14] = "Karl Marx"; quotes[15] = "The other has yet to enlighten him. To tell him something. Even to appear to him in her irreducibility."; authors[15] = "Luce Irigaray"; quotes[16] = "Explanations must come to an end sometime."; authors[16] = "Ludwig Wittgenstein"; quotes[17] = "Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."; authors[17] = "Ludwig Wittgenstein"; quotes[18] = "To return to things themselves is to return to that world which precedes knowledge, of which knowledge always speaks."; authors[18] = "Maurice Merleau-Ponty"; quotes[19] = "There is no closure of discourse, discourse only ever being a compromise—or bricolage—between what it is legitimate to say, what one would like to contend or argue, and what one is forced to recognize."; authors[19] = "Michèle le Doeuff"; quotes[20] = "I'm not making a problem out of a personal question. I make of a personal question an absence of a problem."; authors[20] = "Michel Foucault"; quotes[21] = "One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another."; authors[21] = "René Descartes"; quotes[22] = "The philosophical myth of the abstract subject is accompanied by another myth, one almost as widespread, namely, the idea that Mind itself, abstract cogitation, and nothing in a philosopher's life determines what is 'philosophically interesting.'"; authors[22] = "Sandra Bartky"; quotes[23] = "Art, literature, philosophy, are attempts to found the world anew on a human liberty: that of the individual creator."; authors[23] = "Simone de Beauvoir"; quotes[24] = "The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another."; authors[24] = "Simone de Beauvoir"; quotes[25] = "We can probably say that moral questions have always arisen when moral norms of behavior have ceased to be self-evident and unquestioned in the life of a community."; authors[25] = "Theodor Adorno"; quotes[26] = "Of all human pursuits, the pursuit of wisdom is the more perfect, the more sublime, the more useful, and the more agreeable."; authors[26] = "Thomas Acquinas"; quotes[27] = "There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers."; authors[27] = "William James"; //calculate a random index index = Math.floor(Math.random() * quotes.length); //display the quotation document.write("
" + "\"" + quotes[index] + "\"" + "" + " -" + authors[index] + "
\n"); //done