Robert Nozick Quotes

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• Given the complexity of interpersonal relationships and institutions and the complexity of co-ordination of the actions of many people, it is enormously unlikely that, even…
• Philosophical argument, trying to get someone to believe something whether he wants to believe it or not, is not, I have held, a nice way…
• And although it might be best of all to be Socrates satisfied, having both happiness and depth, we would give up some happiness in order…
• There is room for words on subjects other than last words.
• Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth.
• Marxian exploitation is the exploitation of people's lack of understanding of economics.
• What else can matter to us, other than how our lives feel from the inside?
• The socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults.
• The terminology of philosophical art is coercive: arguments are powerful and best when they are knockdown, arguments force you to a conclusion, if you believe…
• What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies…
• It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that my temperament is to like…
• Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights). So strong and far-reaching are these…
• The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.
• Is there really someone who, searching for a group of wise and sensitive persons to regulate him for his own good, would choose that group…
• Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some…
• One way to determine if a view is inadequate is to check its consequences in particular cases, sometimes extreme ones, but if someone always decided…
• Wisdom is not just knowing fundamental truths, if these are unconnected with the guidance of life or with a perspective on its meaning. If the…
• From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen.
• I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and…
• Evolutionary cosmology formulates theories in which a universe is capable of giving rise to and generating future universes out of itself, within black holes or…

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