"We are waiting not for a Godot but……" — Alasdair MacIntyre
"We are waiting not for a Godot but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict,"
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Alasdair MacIntyre
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18 Quotes by Alasdair MacIntyre
Alasdair MacIntyre has 18 quotes on this site.
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Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if…
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Charles II once invited the members of the Royal Society to explain to him why a dead fish weighs more…
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Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North…
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At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.
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It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest…
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I can only answer the question ‘What am I to do?’ if I can answer the prior question ‘Of what…
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The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture
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A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators,…
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Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?
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Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine…
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There ought not be two histories, one of political and moral action and one of political and moral theorizing, because…
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The way to bring out the best in the British people is to attack them.
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More Benedict Quotes
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Breakfast is a personal ritual that can only be properly observed alone, and in a spirit of genuine excess. The…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Please receive in the name of the Spanish government and the people of Spain our warmest congratulations for your election…
— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
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Forty-one rules aren't so many - St. Benedict had 73 to keep the brethren on the straight and narrow.
— Colman McCarthy
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Benedict XVI leaves no room for uncertainty or minimization. At this present time in which she feels humiliation, the Church…
— Unknown Author
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Nowas you all know, this week, Pope Benedict told Vatican Radio—you know, Vatican Radio, playing the hits from the 8th…
— Bill Maher
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Molly works because, while Watson is ‘the audience’, Molly is every woman of a certain age sitting at home on…
— Louise Brealey
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I did films with Wanda Ventham, Benedict’s mother, and we lived in the same area, in Kensington. So I’d be…
— Unknown Author
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Temperament is fixed, set. The skull, followed by the temperament: the two hardest parts of the body. Follow your temperament.…
— J M Coetzee
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I saw the young man over there with eggs Benedict, with hollandaise sauce. And I was going to suggest to…
— Mitt Romney
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From study of known normal brains we have learned that there is a certain range of variation. No two brains…
— Edward Anthony Spitzka
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The Lord called me by the way of simplicity and humility, and this way He hath shown me in truth…
— Francis of Assisi
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The idea that 'preaching the Gospel' has nothing to do with sex and that 'preaching about sex' has nothing to…
— Christopher West
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