Derek Parfit Quotes
- Normativity, I believe, is very different from motivating force. Neither includes, or implies, the other. Other animals can be motivated by their desires and beliefs.…
- 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…
- Criticizing himself again, Sidgwick writes: I am not an original man: and I think less of my own thoughts every day.
- No question is more sublime than why there is a Universe: why there is anything rather than nothing