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Alasdair MacIntyre has 18 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had…
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Charles II once invited the members of the Royal Society to explain to him why a dead fish weighs more than the…
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Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture,…
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At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.
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It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest sons who…
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I can only answer the question ‘What am I to do?’ if I can answer the prior question ‘Of what story or…
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The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture
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A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and…
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Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?
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Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to…
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We are waiting not for a Godot but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict,
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There ought not be two histories, one of political and moral action and one of political and moral theorizing, because there were…
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does…
— Saint Basil
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To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
— Albert Camus
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The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of…
— Bruce Lee
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To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.
— Michael Novak
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To dance, above all, is to enter into the motions of life. It is an action, a movement, a process. The dance…
— Unknown Author
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It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself.
— Laozi
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It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means…
— Sydney J. Harris
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To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert…
— Albert Camus
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Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?
— Carl Van Vechten
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It is truly strange how long it takes to get to know oneself. I am now sixty two years old, yet just…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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