The movie’s directors, the Wachowski siblings, had given Keanu Reeves three books to read in preparation for playing Neo. One of them was a book I had written a few years earlier, The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life.
“Customs are made for customary circumstances, and customary characters: and his circumstances or his character may be uncustomary.”
― On Liberty
― On Liberty
“Truth, in the great practical concerns of life, is so much a question of the reconciling and combining of opposites, that very few have minds sufficiently capacious and impartial to make the adjustment with an approach to correctness, and it has to be made by the rough process of a struggle between combatants fighting under hostile banners.”
― On Liberty
― On Liberty
“What sort of philosophy one chooses depends…on what sort of man one is;”
― Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers
― Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers
“Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing. It”
― On Liberty
― On Liberty
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