"Philosophers tend to radically underestimate the distance between abstract principles (such as "reduce suffering") and what it might actually mean for people to act on them."

-- Dale Jamieson

#Distance Quotes #Mean Quotes #People Quotes

“The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.”
“I was always fascinated by diagramming a sentence. Because that is going into a space, going into a world of language.”

Source : Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 2007.
“I think I can only help to expose percussion to all sorts of people. The balance between the lighter and more serious side is important.”
“Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our intellectual imagination and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation; but above all because, through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind is also rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.”
“I thought the Egyptians had cured baldness.”
“A lot will have to happen globally and personally before the stars would align.”

Source : Source: time.com
“I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazareneâ€¦.No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus.”
“The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethically challenged science. But spend the people's money on proven blood cord, bone marrow, germ cell, and adult cell research.”

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