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“With regards to hell, , “such unending torment could never serve any positive or reformative purpose precisely because it never ends.”.”
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“...fiction is as useful as truth, for giving us matter, upon which to exercise the judgment of value.”
― Principia Ethica
― Principia Ethica
“I may long for certainty, but I have to live with doing the best I can.”
― Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition
― Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition
“If i am asked 'what is good? my answer is that good is good, and that is the end of the matter. Or if I am asked 'How is good to be defined?' my answer is that it cannot be defined, and that is all I have to say about it”
― Principia Ethica
― Principia Ethica
“Take away religion, take away philosophy, take away the higher aims of art, and you deprive ordinary people of the ways in which they can represent their apartness. Human nature, once something to live up to, becomes something to live down to instead. Biological reductionism nurtures this ‘living down’, which is why people so readily fall for it. It makes cynicism respectable and degeneracy chic. It abolishes our kind, and with it our kindness.”
― Face of God: The Gifford Lectures
― Face of God: The Gifford Lectures
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