Alfred Mele famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

...if there is a widely shared concept of intentional action... a philosophical analysis of intentional action that is wholly unconstrained by that concept runs the risk of having nothing more than a philosophical fiction as its subject matter.
-- Alfred Mele

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Saint George killed the last dragon, and he was called a hero for it. I've never seen a dragon, and I wish he would have left at least one. Saint Patrick made a name for himself by running the snakes out of Ireland, leaving the place vulnerable to rodent infestation. This business of making saints out of men who exterminate their fellow creatures has got to stop. All I'm saying is, it's starting to get a little lonely up here at the top of the food chain.
The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
That's an interesting philosophical question. When your boner goes away, is that one gone... forever?
Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age, in order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.
Life is all about taking risk to get what you want.
Today the strategies of many companies in the real estate industry are premised on low interest rates, an assumption that has resulted in the rapid expansion of the real estate securitization business. This trend could be regarded as a risk factor, as it exposes the real estate sector to at least three potential problems: first, interest rate hikes; second, revisions to securitization business accounting standards; and third, overheating in the real estate market.
Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
The job of dictator is now a high-risk job.

Alfred Mele famous quotes

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