Sean

“It is important to reclaim for humanity the ground that has been taken from it by various arbitrarily narrow formulations of the demands of rationality
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― Amartya Sen

“But it is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once or twice—guessed and refused to believe—that everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second chance, no return. Yet they do move forever under it, reserved for its own black-and-white bad news certainly as if it were the rainbow, and they its children. . . .”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

“To conclude this discussion, assessment of justice demands engagement with the 'eyes of mankind',

first, because we may variously identify with the others elsewhere and not just with our local community;

second, because our choices and actions may affect the lives of others far as well as near;

and third,because what they see from their respective perspective of history and geography may help us to overcome our own parochialism.”
― Amartya Sen, The Idea of Justice

“Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot.”
― amartya sen