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> [The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death. There is a kind of gestalt-shift between the two positions which makes it hard to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-midgley/the-symbolism-of-meat-eating-is-never-neutral-to-himself-the-meat/)

[Mary Midgley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-midgley/)

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## More by Mary Midgley

> [“Unless all that we take to be knowledge is an illusion, we must hold that in thinking we are not reading rationality into an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-midgley/unless-all-that-we-take-to-be-knowledge-is-an-illusion-we-must-hold/)

[Mary Midgley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-midgley/)

> [“By contrast, if one conceives the idea of human rights as centring on the notion that each individual is completely autonomous and should have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-midgley/by-contrast-if-one-conceives-the-idea-of-human-rights-as-centring-on/)

[Mary Midgley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-midgley/)

> [The world in which the kestrel moves, the world that it sees, is, and always will be, entirely beyond us. That there are such…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-midgley/the-world-in-which-the-kestrel-moves-the-world-that-it-sees-is-and/)

[Mary Midgley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-midgley/)

> [Few scientists would treat their cars as badly as they treat their conceptual schemes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-midgley/few-scientists-would-treat-their-cars-as-badly-as-they-treat-their/)

[Mary Midgley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-midgley/)

> [“. . . Neither ecological nor social engineering will lead us to a conflict-free, simple path . . . Utilitarians and others who simply…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-midgley/neither-ecological-nor-social-engineering-will-lead-us-to-a-conflict/)

[Mary Midgley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-midgley/)

> [When some portion of the biosphere is rather unpopular with the human race-a crocodile, a dandelion, a stony valley, a snowstorm, an odd-shaped flint-there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-midgley/when-some-portion-of-the-biosphere-is-rather-unpopular-with-the-human/)

[Mary Midgley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-midgley/)

> [It is extremely urgent to try and adapt our thoughts realistically to a world which has no fixed general direction either upward or downward,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-midgley/it-is-extremely-urgent-to-try-and-adapt-our-thoughts-realistically-to/)

[Mary Midgley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-midgley/)

> [It is this claim to a monopoly of meaning, rather than any special scientific doctrine, that makes science and religion look like competitors today.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-midgley/it-is-this-claim-to-a-monopoly-of-meaning-rather-than-any-special/)

[Mary Midgley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-midgley/)

> [Morally as well as physically, there is only one world, and we all have to live in it](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-midgley/morally-as-well-as-physically-there-is-only-one-world-and-we-all-have/)

[Mary Midgley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-midgley/)

> [What great philosophers do for us is not to hand out such an all-purpose system. It is to light up and clarify some special…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-midgley/what-great-philosophers-do-for-us-is-not-to-hand-out-such-an-all/)

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> [Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling us our origin it shapes our views of what we are. It influences not just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-midgley/evolution-is-the-creation-myth-of-our-age-by-telling-us-our-origin-it/)

[Mary Midgley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-midgley/)

> [The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-midgley/the-symbolism-of-meat-eating-is-never-neutral-to-himself-the-meat/)

[Mary Midgley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-midgley/)

> [None of us can study anything properly unless we do it with our whole being.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-midgley/none-of-us-can-study-anything-properly-unless-we-do-it-with-our-whole/)

[Mary Midgley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-midgley/)

> [The trouble with human beings is not really that they love themselves too much; they ought to love themselves more. The trouble is simply…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-midgley/the-trouble-with-human-beings-is-not-really-that-they-love-themselves/)

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> [Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-midgley/hubris-calls-for-nemesis-and-in-one-form-or-another-it-s-going-to-get/)

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