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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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I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two; that's the meaning of subtraction.
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God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.
— Meister Eckhart
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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…
— Thomas Nagel
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Contentment is not by addition but by subtraction: seeking to add a thing will not bring contentment. Instead, subtracting from your desires…
— Jeremiah Burroughs
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According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three times one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction if…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The minimum could be defined as the perfection that an artefact achieves when it is no longer possible to improve it by…
— John Pawson
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Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want.
— Umberto Eco
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He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating…
— C.S. Lewis
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If production does not increase in Iraq in an exponential way between now and 2015, we have a very big problem, even…
— Fatih Birol
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In an ideal world, social responsibility would be a prerequisite for design, and designers would vow to produce beautiful, useful, positive, responsible,…
— Paola Antonelli
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Meekness, the subtraction of self, reduces the multiplication of words.
— Neal A. Maxwell
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The soul grows by subtraction, not addition.
— Henry David Thoreau
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