Investing Quote by Michael J. Sandel

“[T]he commitment to a framework neutral among ends can be seen as a kind of value [...] but its value consists precisely in its…

— Michael J. Sandel

“Philosophy is a distancing, if not debilitating, activity.”

— Michael J. Sandel

“Moral excellence does not consist in aggregating pleasures and pains but in aligning them, so that we delight in noble things and take pain…

— Michael J. Sandel

“Toleration and freedom and fairness are values too, and they can hardly be defended by the claim that no values can be defended. So…

— Michael J. Sandel

“the moral worth of an action consists not in the consequences that flow from it, but in the intention from which the act is…

— Michael J. Sandel

“Markets express and promote certain attitudes to the goods being exchanged.”

— Michael J. Sandel

“We’re not only sentient beings, governed by the pleasure and pain delivered by our senses; we are also rational beings, capable of reason. If…

— Michael J. Sandel

“philosophy teaches us and unsettles us by confronting us with what we already know; there's an irony: the difficulty consisted in this course is…

— Michael J. Sandel

“about runaway trolleys!” This is an example of what Kant would call heteronomous determination —doing something for the sake of something else, for the…

— Michael J. Sandel

“Outrage is the special kind of anger you feel when you believe that people are getting things they don't deserve. Outrage of this kind…

— Michael J. Sandel

“A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia.”

— Michael J. Sandel

“(...) greed that preys on human misery (...)”

— Michael J. Sandel