Mary Midgley Quotes

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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 our…
• 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 are…
• The world in which the kestrel moves, the world that it sees, is, and always will be, entirely beyond us. That there are such worlds…
• 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 aspect…
• None of us can study anything properly unless we do it with our whole being.
• Morally as well as physically, there is only one world, and we all have to live in it
• 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.…
• The trouble with human beings is not really that they love themselves too much; they ought to love themselves more. The trouble is simply that…
• 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 completion…

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