Belief Quote by Derek Parfit Download Open image “We might neglect our future selves because of some failure of belief or imagination.” — Derek Parfit ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Belief Failure Faith Future self Imagination Might Neglect Our future Self
We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible. — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day. — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
We know so little about the future that to worry about it would be the height of foolishness. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The future is unknown and dealing with unknowns is stressful. It is why imagining the future can be so scary for people and why… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope. — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can get on with creating the future. — Jimmy Bertrand Copy Share Image
If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past. — A. R. Bernard Copy Share Image
Normativity, I believe, is very different from motivating force. Neither includes, or implies, the other. Other animals can be motivated by their desires and… — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
“We ought not to do to our future selves what it would be wrong to do to other people.” — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
It is not enough to ask, 'Will my act harm other people?' Even if the answer is No, my act may still be wrong,… — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
“What now matters most is how we respond to various risks to the survival of humanity. We are creating some of these risks, and… — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
“Disbelief in God, openly admitted by a majority, is a recent event, not yet completed. Because this event is so recent, Non-Religious Ethics is… — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
“My life seemed like a glass tunnel, through which I was moving faster every year, and at the end of which there was darkness.… — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
Criticizing himself again, Sidgwick writes: I am not an original man: and I think less of my own thoughts every day. — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
While reasons are provided by the facts,...rationality...depends instead on our beliefs. [...] [I]f I believe falsely that my hotel is on fire, it may… — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
No question is more sublime than why there is a Universe: why there is anything rather than nothing — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
“Cine a ucis stelele? Cine a surpat drumul spre viitor al celor din morminte?” — Ionel Teodoreanu Copy Share Image
“MIND & GRIND Self-belief and hard work can propel you past more talented peers” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
It took me 20 years of hard training to get the physique I have today. what you need is what i had - BELIEF… — Branch Warren Copy Share Image
“Here is a fundamental difference between the man of faith and the man of unbelief. The unbeliever is 'of the world', judges everything by… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
Let us remember that every worldview-not just Christianity's-must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering...this is not just a problem distinctive… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
“Rigid traditions capture souls prisons of spiritual thought man’s religion has captured a god grown too small and very weak.” — David W Earle Copy Share Image
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In business, as in politics, it is never easy to go against the beliefs and attitudes held by the majority. The businessman who moves… — J. Paul Getty Copy Share Image
![“While reasons are provided by the facts,...rationality...depends instead on our beliefs. [...] [I]f I believe falsely that my hotel is on fire, it may be rational for me to jump into the canal. But I have no reason to jump. I merely think I do. And, if some dangerous treatment would save your…” quote by Derek Parfit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9ed/derek-parfit-38765_action_while-reasons-are-provided-by-the-facts_2530646.jpg)
