“What now matters most is how we respond to various risks to the survival of humanity. We are creating some of these risks, and discovering how we could respond to these and other risks. If we reduce these risks, and… — Derek Parfit Copy Share
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, because of its effects on other people. I should ask, 'Will my act be one of a set of acts that will together harm other people?' The answer may be Yes. And the harm to others… — Derek Parfit Copy Share
“What now matters most is how we respond to various risks to the survival of humanity. We are creating some of these risks, and discovering how we could respond to these and other risks. If we reduce these risks, and humanity survives the next few centuries, our descendants or successors could end these risks by spreading through this galaxy. Life… — Derek Parfit Copy Share
“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)
