Discourse Quote by Catherine Wilson

“Is that the moral of it all, he thought? the moral of the whole story: that there is time enough for everything? Is that…

— Coetze, J.M

Not one idiot in a thousand has been entirely refractory to treatment, not one in a hundred has not been made more happy and…

— Edouard Seguin

It seems to me that responsiveness is a better source for understanding what moral claims are and how they work upon us.

— Judith Butler

“For we conceive it as the aim of a philosopher, as such, to do somewhat more than define and formulate the common normal opinions…

— Henry Sidgwick

We now have a better biological and psychological understanding of our moral thinking. The idea that we should do what maximizes happiness sounds very…

— Joshua Greene

With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.

— Louis Kronenberger

... we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we are constrained,…

— Michel Foucault

In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But all this…

— Terry Eagleton

What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a force that…

— Michel Foucault

If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.

— Sarah Gadon

“Seek to engage yourself in passionate reading. You will gain better understanding of life .”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically.

— Peter Gay