Samuel Scheffler famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Our actual lives, including our values, our social relations, our self-conceptions, and many of our concepts, are pervasively shaped both by the knowledge and by the fact that we will someday die - that we are subject to extreme temporal scarcity. There is no reason to think that, if we were immortal, the same things would continue to matter to us. We have little or no idea what, if anything, would matter to immortal beings, or even how such beings would think of themselves.
-- Samuel Scheffler

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Some people think that in order to lead a morally decent life one may sometimes have to forego the possibility of having a good life oneself. Even if that is true, it does not render morality incredible, but it does raise a question about morality's authority: about what one has most reason to do when one is faced with a conflict of this kind.
-- Samuel Scheffler

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Tolerance is an essential value in the modern world, and we have daily reminders of how awful the alternatives to it are. And despite its paradoxical flavor, there are many good arguments - moral, prudential, and epistemic - in favor of tolerance, and none that I know of against it.
-- Samuel Scheffler

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We are all seeking to live up to normative standards that we recognize, even if we don't all recognize the same standards. This is something basic that we have in common despite our differences.
-- Samuel Scheffler

#Common
Philosophical questions and modes of thought just seem natural to me. They mesh with the way my mind works.
-- Samuel Scheffler

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Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.
If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?
They say youâ€™re meant to live everyday as if it were your last, which Iâ€™ve always thought was daft, since no one would ever pay the gas bill if that was the case, but what if it were your first?
What if you wake up some day, and you're 65... and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life?
What if a puppet could cut its own strings, and in that act of defiance and strength of will become truly alive? Become is own puppetmaster?
Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty can.
When you regret something, what you arenâ€™t seeing is that someday, later, or maybe sooner, youâ€™re going to see why you didnâ€™t get the thing you wanted. So often, something better is just around the corner.
I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday).
Someday we'll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that's how you and I will be
Beauty walks a razors edge, someday I'll make it mine.

Samuel Scheffler famous quotes

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