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Such is the power of sheer animus: it disables our ethical and our practical judgment.
Alan Jacobs • How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds
We are deeply disposed to perceive people as the authors of their actions, to hold them responsible for the wrongs they do us, and to feel that these transgressions must be punished.
Sam Harris • Free Will
God doesn’t stand for a leader who is doing things his own way, disregarding the good of the people, betraying the God of the universe, and seeking selfish gain.
Tara-Leigh Cobble • The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible
John D. Caputo: The Collected Philosophical and Theological Papers: Volume 1: 1969–1985 Aquinas, Eckhart, Heidegger: Metaphysics, Mysticism, Thought
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Something huge and heavy and slow and far away and altogether unknown to him begins to say what it might mean. And then he proceeds to show her. . . .
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
no more need to have them enforce our contracts.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887), Nietzsche argues that morality is determined not by objective truths but by the interests of the moralizer.