"Philosophical argument, trying to get someone to believe something whether he wants to believe it or not, is not, I have held, a nice way to behave towards someone; also it does not fit the original motivation for studying or entering philosophy. That motivation is puzzlement, curiousity, a desire to understand, not a desire to produce uniformity of belief. Most people do not want to become thought-police. The philosophical goal of explanation rather than proof not only is morally better, it is more in accord with one's philosophical motivation."

Source : Robert Nozick (1981). “Philosophical Explanations”, p.13, Harvard University Press

Robert Nozick

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“Spirituality is that place where the utterly intimate and the vastly infinite meet.”
“Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.”
“I am a happy person and I choose to be a positive person. I think some people think my life has been tragic and there have been these horrible dramas but things really have been, and are, fine.”

Source : "'I've had enough passion to last me a lifetime': Patsy Kensit on why she'll never marry again". Interview with Olivia Buxton, www.mirror.co.uk. April 21, 2012.
“This is a racist and imperialist war. The warmongers who stole the White House have hijacked a nation's grief and turned it into a perpetual war on any non-white country they choose to describe as terrorist.”
“No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.”
“writers of novels are so busy being solitary that they haven't time to meet one another. But then, a writer learns nothing from a writer, conversationally. If a writer has anything witty, profound or quotable to say he doesn't say it. He's no fool. He writes it.”
“Child murderers practice their profession without let or hindrance, and open infant butcheries unquestioned...Is there no remedy for all this ante-natal child murder?”

Source : "Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly", November 9, 1870.
“The scholars must become workers so the workers may be scholars.”

Source : Peter Maurin (2010). “Easy Essays”, p.27, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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