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The way things are does not determine the way they ought to be
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Other animals can make sounds, and sounds can indicate pleasure and pain. But language, a distinctly human capacity, isn´t just for registering…
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Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'.
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Parental love is not contingent on the talents and attributes the child happens to have. We choose our friends and spouses at…
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The most fateful change that unfolded during the past three decades was not an increase in greed. It was the expansion of…
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A better way to mutual respect is to engage directly with the moral convictions citizens bring to public life, rather than to…
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There is a tendency to think that if we engage too directly with moral questions in politics, that's a recipe for disagreement,…
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Whether you're a libertarian liberal or a more egalitarian liberal, the idea is that justice means being non-judgmental with respect to the…
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[T]he state should not impose a preferred way of life, but should leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their…
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First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these…
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Markets are useful instruments for organizing productive activity. But unless we want to let the market rewrite the norms that govern social…
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A market economy is a tool - a valuable and effective tool - for organizing productive activity. A market society is a…
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The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and…
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My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever…
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First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.
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The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our…
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In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe…
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Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.
— Martin Amis
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One man should not be afraid of improving his posessions, lest they be taken away from him, or another deterred by high…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one natural impulse,…
— Charles Darwin
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If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and…
— Joseph Paxton
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The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.…
— Karl Popper
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The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world.…
— Samuel Johnson
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