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“You would absolve your Gods of guilt?” Tariq said, sounding surprised.
“You would absolve humanity of responsibility?” Amadeus asked, scornful. “The deferral of consequence to higher power is the deepest form of moral cowardice conceivable. Even your precious Book agrees, Pilgrim – we have a choice.”
― A Practical Guide to Evil V
“You would absolve humanity of responsibility?” Amadeus asked, scornful. “The deferral of consequence to higher power is the deepest form of moral cowardice conceivable. Even your precious Book agrees, Pilgrim – we have a choice.”
― A Practical Guide to Evil V
“I give dignity second place to expedience,” said Cugel.”
― Cugel: The Skybreak Spatterlight
― Cugel: The Skybreak Spatterlight
“Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow.”
― Demon Princes
― Demon Princes
“There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination.”
― Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
― Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
“Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby said, “Reserving judgment is a matter of infinite hope,” but the opposite is also true: to judge is to believe that a person is capable of doing better; it’s to know that people can change their behavior, even quite radically, in response to what is expected of them.”
― Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help
― Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help
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