"The Kantian philosophy is no more than at best a half-secularized version of such a theocratic ethics, with "Reason" in the place of God. This does not amount to much more than a change of names."

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Source : Raymond Geuss (2009). “Outside Ethics”, p.20, Princeton University Press

Raymond Geuss

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“Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.”
“But in that backroom or whatever it is when God confronts me with my sins, I do not believe any of the kills I had during the war will be among them. Everyone I shot was evil. I had good cause on every shot. They all deserved to die.”
“I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'”

Source : The Reader's Digest, Vol. 116, (p. 43), 1980.
“Eventually I became involved with somebody, and I was fired”
“In France, ballet is on TV ... It's on the eight-o'clock news. It's a cool thing to be a dancer.”
“God works in different ways and it shows... And everybody knows, love comes and goes.”
“There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.”
“I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.”

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