"What great philosophers do for us is not……" — Mary Midgley
"What great philosophers do for us is not to hand out such an all-purpose system. It is to light up and clarify some special aspect of life, to supply conceptual tools which will do a certain necessary kind of work. Wide though that area of work may be, it is never the whole, and all ideas lose their proper power when they are used out of their appropriate context. That is why one great philosopher does not necessarily displace another, why there is room for all of them and a great many more whom we do not have yet."
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Mary Midgley
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9 Quotes by Mary Midgley
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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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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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Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from…
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