Raimond Gaita famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

While one could hardly say that philosophers have given much attention to the place that the concept of evil has among our moral concepts, they have done so more in the last ten or so years than they had before. I have, therefore, often wondered why there has been so little discussion of goodness. In Search of Goodness is not only an exception: it is an admirable one. It is original and provocative, impressive both in its breadth and depth.
-- Raimond Gaita

#Years #Evil #Attention
I know what a good man is because I saw it in my father.
-- Raimond Gaita

#Father #Men #Good Man
The drop in living standards most people would have to accept to reduce climate change significantly would still leave us far better off than previous generations, so it's inexcusable that we find it so hard to renounce material goods.
-- Raimond Gaita

#People #Generations #Climate

Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.
Now you see. We are all fugitives. We have always been fugitives from the void. Whatever comfort, whatever power we gain from outside of ourselves diminishes us -- because comfort and power, unless they are won from the void inside of us, are illusions that make us forget the emptyness that carries us. When we forget that, we believe we deserve comfort and power and so are capable of any evil. We deserve nothing but what we make of ourselves. We deserve nothing else. And when we understand that, then nothing is enough.
But all this world is like a tale we hear - Men's evil, and their glory, disappear.
...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.
A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.
I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.
The music has always been my bread and butter, and I've focused more of my attention on that.
Love is heaven and fear is hell. Where you place your attention is where you live.
I've bought QPP shares but unfortunately both times I bought it they immediately dropped by over 10p. Do you pay much attention to the dealing notes?

Raimond Gaita famous quotes

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