Maher

“I am urging that we should learn about people in other places, take an interest in their civilizations, their arguments, their errors, their achievements, not because that will bring us to agreement, but because it will help us get used to one another.”
― Kwame Anthony Appiah, Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers

“How you think about what you are doing affects how you do it, or whether you do it at all.”
― Simon Blackburn, Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy

“There are always people telling us what we want, how they will provide it, and what we should believe. Convictions are infectious, and people can make others convinced of almost anything.”
― Simon Blackburn, Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy

“These illustrations suggest four general maxims[...].
The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself.
The second is: don't over-estimate your own merits.
The third is: don't expect others to take as much interest in you as you do yourself.
And the fourth is: don't imagine that most people give enough thought to you to have any special desire to persecute you.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness