Robert Nozick Quotes
- I guess my tendency is to think essentially that the new wrinkles won't do the job if the old major idea didn't, and so you…
- The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics,…
- Why are philosophers intent on forcing others to believe things? Is that a nice way to behave towards someone?
- Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.
- Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him…
- Certainly the emphasis I place in this chapter on coordination of behavior and cooperation to mutual benefit is something that ought to be very congenial…
- There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future; its degree of corroboration simply is a historical statement describing…
- It's the level that allows us each to live our own chosen lives. But I notice not everyone agrees with the primary importance of that…
- The fact that we don't keep repeating tests in the same arena is not because the probability of the hypothesis showing its falsity in other…
- There is no social entity with a good that undergoes some sacrifice for its own good. There are only individual people, different individual people, with…
- Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights).
- Whoever makes something having bought or contracted for all other held resources used in the process (transferring some of his holdings for these cooperating factors),…