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- Montaigne simply turns his mind loose and writes whatever he feels like writing. Mostly, he wants to say that reason is not a special, unique…
- We are at our human finest, dancing with our minds, when there are more choices than two. Sometimes there are ten, even twenty different ways…
- The gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically, setting us apart from the rest of life.
- If we had better hearing, and could discern the descants of sea birds, the rhythmic tympani of schools of mollusks, or even the distant harmonics…
- Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all…
- I maintain, despite the moment's evidence against the claim, that we are born and grow up with a fondness for each other, and we have…
- I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that…
- Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
- We are not made up, as we had always supposed, of successively enriched packets of our own parts. We are shared, rented, occupied. At the…
- It would seem to me... an offense against nature, for us to come on the same scene endowed as we are with the curiosity, filled…
- Once you have become permanently startled, as I am, by the realization that we are a social species, you tend to keep an eye out…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle