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- Knowing there is a world that will outlive you, there are people whose well-being depends on how you live your life, affects the way you…
- The last 100 years of research into the human brain...sees the brain as an organ that works by physical principles just like the other organs…
- Since the point of erotica is to offer the consumer sexual experiences without having to compromise with the demands of the other sex, it is…
- The elevation of parochial values to the realm of the sacred is a license to dismiss other people's interests, and an imperative to reject the…
- Anything that makes it easier to imagine trading places with someone else increases your moral consideration for that other person.
- We adults protect ourselves with laws, police, workplace regulations and social norms and there is no conceivable reason why children should be left more vulnerable,…
- It's likely that taboo words are stored in the right hemisphere of the brain. Massive left hemisphere strokes or the entire surgical removal of the…
- When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and…
- In any dispute, each side thinks it's in the right and the other side is demons.
- With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.
- As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to deny that other…
- Commerce, trade and exchange make other people more valuable alive than dead, and mean that people try to anticipate what the other guy needs and…
- I think students should know something about religion as a historical phenomenon, in the same way that they should know something about socialism and humanism…
- If you aren't just brought up in your tribe but interact with other people either directly or vicariously, through journalism and literature, you see what…
- Semantics is about the relation of words to thoughts, but it also about the relation of words to other human concerns. Semantics is about the…
- You could think of an ecosystem as a bunch of antagonistic arms races, almost: Everything that an animal depends upon for food is the body…
- Trivers, pursuing his theory of the emotions to its logical conclusion, notes that in a world of walking lie detectors the best strategy is to…
- The more you think about and interact with other people, the more you realize that it is untenable to privilege your interests over theirs, at…
- The more you think about and interact with other people, the more you realize that it is untenable to privilege your interests over theirs.
- 20th-century totalitarian movements were no more defined by a rejection of Judeo-Christianity than they were defined by a rejection of astrology, alchemy, Confucianism, Scientology, or…
More Other Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour