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Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.
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Reason is universal because no attempted challenge to its results can avoid appealing to reason in the end-by claiming, for example, that…
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I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology.
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equally real at all stages of his life; specifically, the fact that a particular stage is present cannot be regarded as conferring…
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To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for a single…
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A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible.
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A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the…
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The inclusion of consequences in the conception of what we have done is an acknowledgement that we are parts of the world,…
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Once we see an aspect of what we or someone else does as something that happens, we lose our grip on the…
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The external view [of agency] forces itself on us at the same time that we resist it. One way this occurs is…
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Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary…
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There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.
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How like they are to human things!
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Stargazing is one of the most profoundly human things one can do. But perhaps we must more frequently tear ourselves away from…
— Jack Gleeson
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The absence of romance from my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by…
— Thucydides
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If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all…
— Ellen Terry
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A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.
— Sophocles
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The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
— Edmund Waller
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Have you ever realized that you can give things to God that are of value to Him? Or are you just sitting…
— Oswald Chambers
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We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to…
— Aristotle
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Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.
— Hannah More
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All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.
— Unknown Author
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Sexuality, and sexual orientation - regardless of orientation - is just natural. An act of sex is one of the most human…
— Hozier
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