"Morally as well as physically, there is only one world, and we all have to live in it"

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Source : Mary Midgley, David Midgley (2005). “The Essential Mary Midgley”, p.145, Psychology Press

Mary Midgley

#World Quotes #Wells Quotes

“For me, it works to my advantage when people think I'm stupid. If somebody who disdains you or wants to control you underestimates you, you can play their game right back.”
“People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.”
“Every time I talk about this, I say: when the singer is singing, he must be respected, you must be able to hear what he's saying. You can't put a trombone and a drum up there, and a microphone on the drum, microphones on everybody. You can't hear what he's saying.”
“One of the nicest things about living in America is the fact that sooner or later you are practically bound to get an award of some sort or other.”
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.”
“In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible.”

Source : Louis Althusser, Gregory Elliott (1990). “Philosophy and the spontaneous philosophy of the scientists & other essays”, Verso Books
“Early love is exciting and exhilarating. It's light and bubbly. Anyone can love like that. But after three children, after a separation and a near-divorce, after you've hurt each other and forgiven each other, bored each other and surprised each other, after you've seen the worst and the best-- well, that sort of love is ineffable. It deserves its own word.”

Source : Liane Moriarty (2010). “What Alice Forgot”, p.367, Penguin UK
“I did have a dog for a few years when I was little, but then just really had cats until I was about 21.”

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