"It would be a mistake to believe that one could come to any substantive understanding of politics by discussing abstractly the good, the right, the true, or the rational in complete abstraction from the way in which these items figure in the motivationally active parts of the human psyche, and particularly in abstraction from the way in which they impinge, even if indirectly, on human action."

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Source : Raymond Geuss (2008). “Philosophy and Real Politics”, p.28, Princeton University Press

Raymond Geuss

#Mistake Quotes #Believe Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“How quickly the apparently solidly laid foundation of one's existence could crumble.”

Source : Patrick Süskind (2015). “The Pigeon”, p.32, Penguin UK
“Strikers are egotists, selfish. We have to be.”
“Some things are too important to be left to the private sector”
“Build a platform - prepare for the unexpected...you' ll know you're successful when the platform you've built serves you in unexpected ways.”
“The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.”

Source : "Man's Fate". Book by André Malraux, 1933.
“A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.”

Source : "Living My Life". Book by Emma Goldman, 1931.
“Thou O Lord, art my Father and Thou my Mother. Thou art the Giver of peace to my soul and very life.”
“Consistently wise decisions can only be made by those whose wisdom is constantly challenged.”

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