"The challenge, then, is to take minds and hearts formed over the long millennia of living in local troops and equip them with ideas and institutions that will allow us to live together as the global tribe we have become."

--

Source : Kwame Anthony Appiah (2015). “Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers”, p.8, Penguin UK

Kwame Anthony Appiah

#Heart Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Long Quotes

“When we die, these are the stories still on our lips. The stories weâ€™ll only tell strangers, someplace private in the padded cell of midnight. These important stories, we rehearse them for years in our head but never tell. These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost.”
“But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually.”
“Meg, when people don't know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named”
“Working in magazines these days is like one of those horror movies where people keep leaving the room and not coming back.”
“Californians have brought suburb-making almost to an art. Their cities and their country-side are equally suburban. No-one has a country house in California; no-one has a city house. It is good to see trees always from city windows, but it is not so good always to see houses from country windows.”
“Treat everyone how you want to be treated.”
“Every moment of my life has a soundtrack, so I never know when some song is going to jump me by surprise and bring the memory alive.”
“Last night I had a peace dream...”

You may also like:

Avital Ronell
Philosopher
Cornel West
Philosopher
Henry Louis Gates
Literary critic
Kwame Nkrumah
Former President for Life
Martha C. Nussbaum
Philosopher
Michael Hardt
Philosopher
Stafford Cripps
Politician
W. E. B. Du Bois
Historian
Astra Taylor
Filmmaker