"To a society that inarticulately and thoughtlessly takes itself to be divine, Hegel says, Yes, we are indeed divine, and philosophy can show how this is both possible and necessary."

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Source : Merold Westphal (2010). “Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society”, p.38, Penn State Press

Merold Westphal

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“But to deny fate is arrogance, to declare that we are the sole shapers of our existence is madness;if you deny fate life becomes the series of missed opportunities, a regret for what never was and could have been, a remorse of what was not done and could have been done, and the present is wasted, twisted into another missed oppurtunity.”
“But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.”

Source : "The long (and surprisingly happy) life of Nancy Pelosi’s ‘pass the bill’ gaffe" by David Weigel, www.washingtonpost.com. March 15, 2017.
“If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.”
“Get out there and do what you love!”
“Pundits are saying that President Obama is starting to lose support among his own party. To give you an idea of how bad it's gotten, today Jimmy Carter compared him to Jimmy Carter.”
“Idiots don't know they're idiots, which is unfortunate.”
“You cannot put it all in God's hands. God is busy.”
“The reason so few people are successful is no one has yet found a way for someone to sit down and slide uphill.”

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