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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 woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its…
— Saint Basil
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We are all more or less ill till we find -Self-enquiry our Oneness with everyone else.
— Douglas Harding
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The news of the discovery spread fast all over the country, and inquisitive enquiries mingled with congratulations from this moment became the…
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The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry…
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A page from a journal of modern experimental physics will be as mysterious to the uninitiated as a Tibetan mandala. Both are…
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The peculiar fascination of the brain lies in the fact that there is probably no other object of scientific enquiry about which…
— Unknown Author
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If the Commission is to enquire into the conditions "to be observed," it is to be presumed that they will give the…
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The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. The surest way to end them…
— A.J. Ayer
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Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth; and I am sure...we both value too much the freedom of opinion…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error... They are the natural enemies of error, and of error only...…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If the maintenance of public credit, then, be truly important, the next enquiry which suggests itself is, by what means it is…
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As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.
— Bridget Riley
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