Martha Paul

“It is here that my parable differs from Hare’s. The partisan admits that many
things may and do count against his belief: whereas Hare’s lunatic who has a blik about
dons doesn’t admit that anything counts against his blik. Nothing can count against
bliks. Also the partisan has a reason for having in the first instance committed himself,
viz. the character of the Stranger; whereas the lunatic has no reason for his blik about
dons—because, of course, you can’t have reasons for bliks.”
― basil mitchell

“...fiction is as useful as truth, for giving us matter, upon which to exercise the judgment of value.”
― G.E. Moore, 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.”
― Roger Scruton, Face of God: The Gifford Lectures

“I may long for certainty, but I have to live with doing the best I can.”
― Patricia S. Churchland, Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition