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“There is no life without struggle, so it seems that fighting is the only solution. Practically speaking, peace never lasts longer.”
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“Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.”
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“Do not hide behind such superficialities as whether you should or should not give a dime to a beggar. That is not the issue. The issue is whether you do or do not have the right to exist without giving him that dime. The issue is whether you must keep buying your life, dime by dime, from any beggar who might choose to approach you. The issue is whether the need of others is the first mortgage on your life and the moral purpose of your existence. The issue is whether man is to be regarded as a sacrificial animal. Any man of self-esteem will answer: “No.” Altruism says: “Yes.”
― Philosophy: Who Needs It
― Philosophy: Who Needs It
“In the end one experiences only oneself.”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“The reckoning what to do or abstain from in particular circumstances will constantly include a reference, implicit or explicit, to generalities. […] Because of it human conduct is not left to be distinguished from the behavior of other animals by the fact that in it calculation is used by which to ascertain the means to perfectly particular ends. The human wants things like health and happiness and science and fair repute and virtue and prosperity, he does not simply want, e.g., that such-and-such a thing should be in such-and-such a place at such-and-such a time.”
― The collected philosophical papers of G.E.M. Anscombe
― The collected philosophical papers of G.E.M. Anscombe
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