"Normativity, I believe, is very different from motivating force. Neither includes, or implies, the other. Other animals can be motivated by their desires and beliefs. Only we can understand and respond to reasons."

-- Derek Parfit

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“Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.”
“Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones.”
“In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.”
“So with Easter. It was fun, as a child, to bound down the stairs to find seasonal sweet-treats under each plate, but again, with the passing of time, and the shadow of death over our broken family circle, I've seen Easter as highest necessity. If hope is to flourish, it had better be true.”
“Spiritual consciousness does not make your problems go away; it does, however, help you view them from a different vantage point.”
“You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.”
“Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”
“And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?”

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