"Philosophers have actually devoted themselves, in the main, neither to perceiving the world, nor to spinning webs of conceptual theory, but to interpreting the meaning of the civilizations which they have represented, and to attempting the interpretation of whatever minds in the universe, human or divine, they believed to be real."

-- Josiah Royce

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“Thereâ€™s no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan.”
“Constantly take inventory of what's important to you.”
“I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.”
“In life, like, I'm always living life to the fullest to always have fun.”
“Segmented killing and hatred will only stop when we enlarge our personal, national, and international circles of concern to include all six billion people on this planet: not just the white ones, Christian ones, American ones, female ones, or any ones. Simply put: every one.”
“Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.”
“I have a file of letters and bits of ephemera from friends who have died. I have had lots of friends who died of AIDS.”
“I'd like everybody to be secular. I suppose I have to say politically I would like religion to become gentler and nicer and to stop interfering with other people's lives, stop repressing women, stop indoctrinating children, all that sort of thing. But I really, really would like to see religion go away altogether.”

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