Edith Green quotes

Edith Green quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I've always argued that it is just as desirable, just as possible, to have philosopher plumbers as philosopher kings.”
-- Edith Green

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“Do I really have moves like Jagger? F**king A, no, I donâ€™t. But I was going to tell everybody that I did and hoped they believed me.”
“Great necessities call out great virtues.”

Source : Letter to John Quincy Adams, 19 Jan. 1780
“I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.”
“The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.”
“How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?”

Source : Remarks at American Enterprise Institute dinner, Washington, D.C., 5 Dec. 1996
“I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.”
“In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan's anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called 'contemporary philosophers'.”
“The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.”
“Alvin Plantinga is arguably the greatest philosopher of the last century.”
“All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.”

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