"Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form……" — Mary Midgley
"Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern already started."
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9 Quotes by Mary Midgley
Mary Midgley has 9 quotes on this site.
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Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling us our origin it shapes our views of what we are.…
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When some portion of the biosphere is rather unpopular with the human race-a crocodile, a dandelion, a stony valley, a…
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The world in which the kestrel moves, the world that it sees, is, and always will be, entirely beyond us.…
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What great philosophers do for us is not to hand out such an all-purpose system. It is to light up…
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None of us can study anything properly unless we do it with our whole being.
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Morally as well as physically, there is only one world, and we all have to live in it
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The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he…
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The trouble with human beings is not really that they love themselves too much; they ought to love themselves more.…
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