"As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour and ingenuity to explaining away plain facts which obviously conflict with it."

-- C. D. Broad

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“Win or lose, I'll feel good about myself. That's what is important.”
“Have you ever Googled yourself? I did, most depressing thing ever. People have websites hoping I die at 38.”
“What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.”
“You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms.”

Source : Susan Neiman (2009). “Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists”, p.132, Random House
“I don't mean to hate people, I just get forced into it.”
“I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.”
“Well, right now I'm not dead. But when I am, it's like...I don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading. [...] An old one. It's up on a library shelf, so you're safe and everything, but the book hasn't been checked out for a long, long time. All you can do is wait. Just hope somebody'll pick it up and start reading.”
“In late marriage alone lies the compulsion to retain an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a disgrace to humanity, an institution which is damned ill-suited to a being who with his usual modesty likes to regard himself as the 'image' of God.”

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