"When consequentialist theories are developed in terms of an equally shallow psychology of the good - such as a crude form of hedonism - the results can sometimes strike sensible people as revolting and inhuman. People can be reduced to simple repositories of positive or negative sensory states, and their humanity is lost sight of entirely."

-- Allen W. Wood

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“Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.”
“The child should live in an environment of beauty.”
“Questions that pertain to the foundations of mathematics, although treated by many in recent times, still lack a satisfactory solution. Ambiguity of language is philosophy's main source of problems. That is why it is of the utmost importance to examine attentively the very words we use.”

Source : "The Principles of Arithmetic, presented by a new method". Book by Giuseppe Peano, 1889.
“My hunch, for what it's worth, is that most of us probably find it much, much harder than we realize to really imagine what catastrophe is like. I have a hunch that we all labor under this rather convenient illusion that if we read about the Syrian refugee crisis, we can imagine what it feels like to set off from your home and your life with all your possessions in two bin liners. We all think that we can imagine that and my guess is that none of us have got a clue.”

Source : "Decca Aitkenhead on Empathy and Memory". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 15, 2016.
“Concerted voices of heartfelt petitions in Arabic all pleading for divine intervention are abruptly silenced as the drone ensures fatalities by injecting a final stab in each of their skulls.”
“Experience comes from what we have done. Wisdom comes from what we have done badly.”

Source : Mortimer Levitt, Theodore Levitt (1998). “Thinking About Management”, p.94, Simon and Schuster
“Great, the worlds coming to an end and we're fixing it with Band-Aids”

Source : Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Tell your story. That's the secret of immortality. The one true way to live forever.”

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