"Neither the good nor the true is self-realizing, so it is not generally a sufficient explanation of why people believe that X that X is true, or of why people do Y that Y is good."

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Source : "Philosophy and Real Politics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2008.

Raymond Geuss

#Believe Quotes #Self Quotes #People Quotes

“It takes a long time to appreciate one's parents.”
“See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.”
“If I notice a cute girl at the meet-and-greet, I might go and talk to her.”
“I look like a child - and I love it!”

Source : Interview with Seventeen Magazine, www.seventeen.com. July 31, 2007.
“Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I'm just one woman away, my mother, from being the same as Mike Tyson. I would've ended up like him if my mama had not been so tough and strong. A lot of people, including Mike, don't know I came from the ghetto. They think I'm too nice and proper. But that's the way my mama raised me - to look people in the eye and respect them.”
“[While shooting close-ups] you study real eyes, you study how the light reflects in them, you study the back of the eye, you study the way irises reflect emotion. You go into great scientific detail.”
“You have a right to say no. Most of us have very weak and flaccid 'no' muscles. We feel guilty for saying no. We get ostracized and challenged for saying no, so we forget it's our choice. Your 'no' muscle has to be built up to get to a place where you can say, 'I don't care if that's what you want. I don't want that. No.'”

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