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But once we recognize that many ideas that are taken to be quintessentially Western have also flourished in other civilizations, we also…
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we must go on fighting for basic education for all, but also emphasize the importance of the content of education. We have…
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The elimination of ignorance, of illiteracy... and of needless inequalities in opportunities (is) to be seen as objectives that are valued for…
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I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled to it),…
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Economics, as it has emerged, can be made more productive by paying greater and more explicit attention to the ethical considerations that…
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Development requires major source of unfreedom: poverty as well as tyranny, poor economic opportunities as well as systematic social deprivation, neglect of…
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Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot.
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The increasing tendency towards seeing people in terms of one dominant ‘identity’ (‘this is your duty as an American’, ‘you must commit…
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In Illinois a pregnant woman who takes an illegal drug can be prosecuted for 'delivering a controlled substance to a minor.' This…
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Every explicit duality is an implicit unity.
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Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear,…
— Bertrand Russell
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What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my…
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Cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. They realize...that we have an infuriating inability to understand, let alone…
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Since religion intrinsically rejects empirical methods, there should never be any attempt to reconcile scientific theories with religion. [An infinitely old universe,…
— Hannes Alfven
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Philosophy attempts, not to discover new truths about the world, but to gain a clear view of what we already know and…
— Michael Dummett
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The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a…
— Saint Augustine
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