G. E. M. Anscombe famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The primitive sign of wanting is trying to get....
-- G. E. M. Anscombe

#Knowledge #Mind #Trying
...once the cards are dealt we turn them up in turn, and make two piles each, one red, one black; the winner has the biggest pile of red ones. So once the cards are dealt the game is determined, and from any position in it you can derive all others back to the deal and forward to win or draw. ...in relation to the solar system..., the laws are like the rules of an infantile card game.... But in relation to what happens on and inside a planet the laws are, rather, like the rules of chess; the play is seldom determined, though nobody breaks the rules.
-- G. E. M. Anscombe

#Winning #Law #Games
Those who try to make room for sex as mere casual enjoyment pay the penalty: they become shallow. At any rate the talk that reflects and commends this attitude is always shallow. They dishonour their own bodies; holding cheap what is naturally connected with the origination of human life.
-- G. E. M. Anscombe

#Sex #Attitude #Trying
The denial of any distinction between foreseen and intended consequences, as far as responsibility is concerned, was not made by Sidgwick in developing any one 'method of ethics'; he made this important move on behalf of everybody and just on its own account; and I think it plausible to suggest that this move on the part of Sidgwick explains the difference between old-fashioned Utilitarianism and the consequentialism, as I name it, which marks him and every English academic moral philosopher since him.
-- G. E. M. Anscombe

#Moving #Responsibility #Thinking
An intentional object is given by a word or a phrase which gives a description under which.
-- G. E. M. Anscombe

#Giving #Phrases #Description
Christianity taught that men ought to be as chaste as pagans thought honest women ought to be; the contraceptive morality teaches that women need to be as little chaste as pagans thought men need be.
-- G. E. M. Anscombe

#Men #Needs #Honest Woman

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.
There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.
A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.
Good satire goes beyond the specific point itâ€™s trying to make and teaches you how to think critically. Even after your favorite cartoonist retires or [Stephen] Colbert wraps it up, youâ€™re not left believing everything theyâ€™re telling you.
I try to be as courteous as possible and sometimes try to tell my fans that as much as I appreciate their support, there are times where I need to be able to have an uninterrupted dinner or not have to take a bunch of pictures or just be able to do some of the normal things.
I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.

G. E. M. Anscombe famous quotes

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