"We do not wish to "judge" or assess out surrounding merely as a kind of expressive activity carelessly projected onto the world, but we wish to evaluate the world "correctly," i.e., in according with that it truly is, and the desire to know is directed at determining what the world truly is."

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

Raymond Geuss

#Judging Quotes #Desire Quotes #Wish Quotes

“You wouldn't want to move if you sat next to me on the bus. Or maybe you would.”

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“There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.”
“Angela Carter, Leonora Carrington, even nonsurrealists like Kafka and Nabokov - writers like these, who create paths between the firmly grounded and flights of fantasy, are my personal North Star.”

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“Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they're moving toward getting it.”
“Growing up, I was in and out of trouble in group homes and other institutions, and when I was 14, I was locked up in a psychiatric hospital for a number of months for behavioral problems.”
“It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history.”
“Sports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth.”
“Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission?”

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