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“We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.”
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“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
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“Utopian speculations ... must come back into fashion. They are a way of affirming faith in the possibility of solving problems that seem at the moment insoluble. Today even the survival of humanity is a utopian hope.”
― Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History
― Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History
“Were we incapable of empathy – of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own – then ethical reasoning would lead nowhere. If emotion without reason is blind, then reason without emotion is impotent.”
― Writings on an Ethical Life: Peter Singer's Provocative Philosophy on Animal Rights and Bioethics
― Writings on an Ethical Life: Peter Singer's Provocative Philosophy on Animal Rights and Bioethics
“The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it.”
― Masks of the Illuminati
― Masks of the Illuminati
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