Robert C. Solomon Quotes

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• The dollar is currently the principal reserve currency in the world.
• Chances are the movements of the euro as against the dollar will be relatively moderate.
• Love can be understood only "from the inside," as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be…
• All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal.
• Building trust begins with an appreciation and understanding of trust, but it also requires practice and practices.
• Building trust means thinking about trust in a positive way.
• Familiarity can no longer be a necessary condition for trust.
• Many people are blind to trust, not so much to its benefits as to its nature and the practices that make it possible.
• True, trust necessarily carries with it uncertainties, but we must force ourselves to think about these uncertainties as possibilities and opportunities, not as liabilities.
• Trust and the ability to identify trustworthiness are not the same thing, although trust and trustworthiness are logically linked.
• Trust is a skill learned over time so that, like a well-trained athlete, one makes the right moves, usually without much reflection.
• Trust is a skill, one that is an aspect of virtually all human practices, cultures, and relationships.
• Trust is almost always conditional, focused, qualified, and therefore limited.
• Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.
• Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities.
• We also confuse trust with familiarity.
• Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less than the thoughtful love of…
• What gives life meaning is a form of rebellion, rebellion against reason, an insistence on believing passionately what we cannot believe rationally. The meaning of…
• There's a stability and growth pact which was agreed for the eleven countries which tries to limit the size of budget deficits among the eleven…
• Whether one sees the world as God's creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out, there is no…

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