"Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against……" — Robert Nozick
"Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth."
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32 Quotes by Robert Nozick
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Given the complexity of interpersonal relationships and institutions and the complexity of co-ordination of the actions of many people, it…
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Philosophical argument, trying to get someone to believe something whether he wants to believe it or not, is not, I…
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And although it might be best of all to be Socrates satisfied, having both happiness and depth, we would give…
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There is room for words on subjects other than last words.
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Marxian exploitation is the exploitation of people's lack of understanding of economics.
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What else can matter to us, other than how our lives feel from the inside?
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The socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults.
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The terminology of philosophical art is coercive: arguments are powerful and best when they are knockdown, arguments force you to…
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What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested…
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It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that…
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Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights). So…
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The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.
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More Ensnared Quotes
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Every period of life has its peculiar temptations and dangers. But youth is the time when we are most likely…
— Josiah Johnson Hawes
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We really can't boil a man's life down to seasonal divisions of spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Seasons cycle perennially,…
— Hideo Kojima
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Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Perhaps you have been ensnared by a sinful habit that you will not abandon, and your guilt is so overwhelming…
— Charles Stanley
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America is ensnared in self-indulgence and its future hangs in the balance. Our moral and spiritual foundations are rapidly being…
— John Hagee
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No grand inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety and no spy knows how to attack more…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Oh what lies there are in kisses! And their guile so well prepared! Sweet the snaring is; but this is…
— Heinrich Heine
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December drops no weak, relenting tear, By our fond summer sympathies ensnared; Nor from the perfect circle of the year…
— Christopher Pearse Cranch
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From coast to coast, the FBI and Securities and Exchange Commission have ensnared people not only at hedge funds, but…
— Preet Bharara
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Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was. Sometimes I feel ensnared in this, as…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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[The Head of Radio Three] had been ensnared by the Music Director of the college and a Professor of Philosophy.…
— Douglas Adams
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Just for a while": Death's opening chat-up line in His great seduction, before he drugged you with soporific comforts, distracted…
— Christopher Brookmyre
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