Derek Parfit quotes
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“No question is more sublime than why there is a Universe: why there is anything rather than nothing”
-- Derek ParfitSource : Derek Parfit (2013). “On What Matters: Volume Two”, p.624, Oxford University Press
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“We might neglect our future selves because of some failure of belief or imagination.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Criticizing himself again, Sidgwick writes: I am not an original man: and I think less of my own thoughts every day.”
-- Derek ParfitSource : Derek Parfit, Samuel Scheffler (2013). “On What Matters: Volume One”, p.40, Oxford University Press
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“It is not enough to ask, 'Will my act harm other people?' Even if the answer is No, my act may still be wrong, because of its effects on other people. I should ask, 'Will my act be one of a set of acts that will together harm other people?' The answer may be Yes. And the harm to others may be great. If this is so, I may be acting very wrongly, like the Harmless Torturers.”
-- Derek Parfit
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Source : Amy Lowell (1955). “Complete poetical works: With an introd. by Louis Untermeyer”
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Source : August Weismann, Sir John Arthur Thomson, Margaret R. Thomson (1904). “The Evolution Theory”
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Source : Ayelet Waldman (2017). “A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life”, p.13, Knopf
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“One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair.”
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“The universe is real, but you can't see it. You have to imagine it.”
Source : Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.), Alexander Calder (1974). “Alexander Calder: a retrospective exhibition. Work from 1925 to 1974”
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