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10 months ago

A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to 'hunger and thirst' after it is often merely a symptom of spiritual diabetes.--Charlie D. Broad

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10 months ago

If a man in good health does not experience some kind of sexual reaction when he sees an attractive woman, there is something wrong with him.--Bertrand Russell

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10 months ago

The unexamined life is not worth living.--Socrates

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10 months ago

Marxism and humanism, far from offering a Godless alternative to theocracy, were really just trashy replicas of its cheapest and nastiest themes.--Jonathan Ree

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10 months ago

The more arbitrary the discipline, the more it works to reinforce belief in the cause. For only the truth of the belief and the righteousness of the cause could justify the hardship of submission.--Myles Burnyeat

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10 months ago

Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilisation.--Henri Bergson

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10 months ago

If only those actions are moral... which are performed out of freedom of will, then there are no moral actions.--Nietzsche

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10 months ago

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.--Adam Smith

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10 months ago

Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly the evidence? I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.--David Hume

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10 months ago

'Slapdash egoism?, Midgley says, 'is not really a very puzzling phenomenon.' Nor, I suppose, is slapdash discussion (even in a reputable philosophical journal); but it is deplorable.--J. L. Mackie

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10 months ago

An ideology is a complex of ideas or notions which represents itself to the thinker as an absolute truth for the interpretation of the world and his situation within it...--Karl Jaspers

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10 months ago

On earth there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind.--William Hamilton

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10 months ago

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that mislike it, heresy: and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.--Thomas Hobbes

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10 months ago

If a man is sufficiently unimaginative to produce evidence in support of a lie, he might just as well speak the truth at once.--Oscar Wilde

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10 months ago

The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.--Richard Dawkins

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10 months ago

I cannot forgive Descartes; in all his philosophy he did his best to dispense with God. But he could not avoid making Him set the world in motion with a flip of His thumb; after that he had no more use for God.--Blaise Pascal

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10 months ago

If we were to compare attitudes about speciesism today with past racist attitudes, we would have to say that we are back in the days in which the slave trade was still legal.--Peter Singer

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10 months ago

Since we are in the main not sceptics, we might go on and frankly confess to each other the motives for our several faiths. I frankly confess mine - I cannot but think that at bottom they are of an aesthetic and not of a logical sort.--William James