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Other animals can make sounds, and sounds can indicate pleasure and pain. But language, a distinctly human capacity, isn´t just for registering pleasure and pain.…

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The way things are does not determine the way they ought to be
Other animals can make sounds, and sounds can indicate pleasure and pain. But language, a distinctly human capacity, isn´t just for registering…
Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'.
Parental love is not contingent on the talents and attributes the child happens to have. We choose our friends and spouses at…
The most fateful change that unfolded during the past three decades was not an increase in greed. It was the expansion of…
A better way to mutual respect is to engage directly with the moral convictions citizens bring to public life, rather than to…
There is a tendency to think that if we engage too directly with moral questions in politics, that's a recipe for disagreement,…
Whether you're a libertarian liberal or a more egalitarian liberal, the idea is that justice means being non-judgmental with respect to the…
[T]he state should not impose a preferred way of life, but should leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their…
First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these…
Markets are useful instruments for organizing productive activity. But unless we want to let the market rewrite the norms that govern social…
A market economy is a tool - a valuable and effective tool - for organizing productive activity. A market society is a…

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We cannot heal the throbbing heart till we discern the wounds within. — George Crabbe
We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
As we discern a fine line between crank and genius, so also (and unfortunately) we must acknowledge an equally graded trajectory from… — Stephen Jay Gould
Where but in the very asshole of comedown is redemption: as where but brought low, where but in the grief of failure,… — A. R. Ammons
Other animals can make sounds, and sounds can indicate pleasure and pain. But language, a distinctly human capacity, isn´t just for registering… — Michael Sandel
When we discern that people are not going on spiritually and allow the discernment to turn to criticism, we block our way… — Oswald Chambers
Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion… — Charlie Chaplin
We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages,… — Thomas Carlyle
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place. — John Milton
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors. — Henry David Thoreau
At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity… — C.S. Lewis
In conclusion we may say, in view of the confirmation that our study has given of the parallelism between individual and racial… — James Mark Baldwin

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