Derek Parfit Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“No question is more sublime than why there is a Universe: why there is anything rather than nothing”
-- Derek Parfit

#Sublime #Universe
“We might neglect our future selves because of some failure of belief or imagination.”
-- Derek Parfit

#Self #Imagination #Might
“Normativity, I believe, is very different from motivating force. Neither includes, or implies, the other. Other animals can be motivated by their desires and beliefs. Only we can understand and respond to reasons.”
-- Derek Parfit

#Believe #Animal #Psychology
“While reasons are provided by the facts,...rationality...depends instead on our beliefs. [...] [I]f I believe falsely that my hotel is on fire, it may be rational for me to jump into the canal. But I have no reason to jump. I merely think I do. And, if some dangerous treatment would save your life, but you don't know that fact, it would be irrational for you to take this treatment, but that is what you have most reason to do.”
-- Derek Parfit

#Believe #Thinking #Fire
“Criticizing himself again, Sidgwick writes: I am not an original man: and I think less of my own thoughts every day.”
-- Derek Parfit

#Writing #Men #Thinking

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