"Why are philosophers intent on forcing others to believe things? Is that a nice way to behave towards someone?"

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Source : Robert Nozick (1981). “Philosophical Explanations”, p.5, Harvard University Press

Robert Nozick

#Nice Quotes #Philosophy Quotes #Believe Quotes

“There is no such thing as evolution.”

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“Today a woman must ignore her reflection in the eyes of her lover, since he might admire her, and seek it in the gaze of the God of Beauty, in whose perception she is never complete.”
“Writing stories, adopting other characters, making up fantastic stories and tales, this is a way of perhaps enhancing who I am. Writing stories takes a commonplace old life and makes it all somehow more interesting. And hopefully I can do that in a way that touches a lot of people in their lives, too.”

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“The strangest part of being so well known is definitely getting a New Yorker profile. It's a wonderful, strange process, like seeing yourself through a distorting mirror.”
“I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am. Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.”

Source : Interview with Michael Carlson, Crime Time, 2001.
“I am the fiery life of the essence of God; I am the flame above the beauty in the fields; I shine in the waters; I burn in the sun, the moon, and the stars. And with the airy wind, I quicken all things vitally by an unseen, all-sustaining life.”
“I can't stand the gossip of celebrities' lives, all the time! Every minute!”
“It's not enough to identify the Superobjective intellectually; you have to justify it, to find the emotional drive behind it. You need your own specific interpretation of the superobjective so that every time you think of it, it makes you emotional and drives you into action.”

Source : Larry Moss (2004). “The Intent to Live: Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor”, p.30, Bantam

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