It is not enough to ask, 'Will my act harm other people?' Even if the answer is No, my act may still be wrong, because of its effects on other people. I should ask, 'Will my act be one of… — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
While reasons are provided by the facts,...rationality...depends instead on our beliefs. [...] [I]f I believe falsely that my hotel is on fire, it may be rational for me to jump into the canal. But I have no reason to jump.… — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
Normativity, I believe, is very different from motivating force. Neither includes, or implies, the other. Other animals can be motivated by their desires and… — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
We might neglect our future selves because of some failure of belief or imagination. — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
“We ought not to do to our future selves what it would be wrong to do to other people.” — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
It is not enough to ask, 'Will my act harm other people?' Even if the answer is No, my act may still be wrong,… — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
“What now matters most is how we respond to various risks to the survival of humanity. We are creating some of these risks, and… — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
“Disbelief in God, openly admitted by a majority, is a recent event, not yet completed. Because this event is so recent, Non-Religious Ethics is… — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
“My life seemed like a glass tunnel, through which I was moving faster every year, and at the end of which there was darkness.… — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
Criticizing himself again, Sidgwick writes: I am not an original man: and I think less of my own thoughts every day. — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
While reasons are provided by the facts,...rationality...depends instead on our beliefs. [...] [I]f I believe falsely that my hotel is on fire, it may… — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
No question is more sublime than why there is a Universe: why there is anything rather than nothing — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
![“While reasons are provided by the facts,...rationality...depends instead on our beliefs. [...] [I]f I believe falsely that my hotel is on fire, it may be rational for me to jump into the canal. But I have no reason to jump. I merely think I do. And, if some dangerous treatment would save your…” quote by Derek Parfit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9ed/derek-parfit-38765_action_while-reasons-are-provided-by-the-facts_2530646.jpg)
