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“History is like therapy for the present, it makes it talk about its parents.”
― The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World
― The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World
“[It] is nevertheless better than the theological concept, of deriving morality from a divine, all-perfect will, not merely because we do not intuit this perfection, but can derive it solely from our concepts, of which morality is the foremost one, but because if we do not do this (which, if we did, would be a crude circle in explanation), the concept of his will that is left over to us, the attributes of the desire for glory and domination, bound up with frightful representations of power and vengeance, would have to make a foundation for a system of morals that is directly opposed to morality.”
― Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
― Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
“Inexperienced in the course of world affairs and incapable of being prepared for all the chances that happen in it, I ask myself only 'Can you also will that your maxim should become a universal law?' Where you cannot it is to be rejected...”
― Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
― Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
“What is more, we cannot do morality a worse service than by seeing to derive it from examples. Every example of it presented to me must first itself be judged by moral principles in order to decide if it is fit to serve as an original example...even the Holy One of the gospel must first be compared with our ideal of moral perfection before we can recognize him to be such.”
― Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
― Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
“And just as the same town, when looked at from different sides, appears quite different and is, as it were, multiplied in perspective, so also it happens that because of the infinite number of simple substances, it is as if there were as many different universes, which are however but different perspective representations of a single universe form the different point of view of each monad.”
― G. W. Leibniz's Monadology: An Edition for Students
― G. W. Leibniz's Monadology: An Edition for Students
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