“When They Die We Change Our Minds About Them When they die we change our minds about them. While they live we see the plenty hard they’re trying,to be a star, or nice, or wise, and so we do not… — Jennifer Michael Hecht Copy Share Image
“When They Die We Change Our Minds About Them When they die we change our minds about them. While they live we see the… — Jennifer Michael Hecht Copy Share
If you look at a testimony of love from 2,000 years ago it can still exactly speak to you, whereas medical advice from only… — Jennifer Michael Hecht Copy Share
“Plato offers the amazing idea that contemplation of the way things really are is, in itself, a purifying process that can bring human beings… — Jennifer Michael Hecht Copy Share
Lucian [of Samosata; 120-190 CE] was trying to make his audience laugh, rather than start a revolution — Jennifer Michael Hecht Copy Share
We are humanity, Kant says. Humanity needs us because we are it. Kant believes in duty and considers remaining alive a primary human duty.… — Jennifer Michael Hecht Copy Share
“For Epicurus, living prudently, in deep appreciation of modest pleasures, was not just the route to happiness, it was happiness.” — Jennifer Michael Hecht Copy Share
“Prayer is based on the remote possibility that someone is actually listening; but so is a lot of conversation. If the former seems far-fetched,… — Jennifer Michael Hecht Copy Share
Your staying alive means so much more than you really know or that anyone is aware of at this moment. — Jennifer Michael Hecht Copy Share
“None of us can truly know what we mean to other people, and none of us can know what our future self will experience.… — Jennifer Michael Hecht Copy Share
A reasonable scale of probability-what is likely-forbids believing a whole range of imaginative possibilities, even though we do not know anything for sure. — Jennifer Michael Hecht Copy Share
Like belief, doubt takes a lot of different forms, from ancient Skepticism to modern scientific empiricism, from doubt in many gods to doubt in… — Jennifer Michael Hecht Copy Share
“We seem obsessed with motivation, rallying ourselves to something beyond the life available to us right now, and we treat this motivation as if… — Jennifer Michael Hecht Copy Share
