In the end, it is ideas for which people kill each other.
Simon Blackburn
My general thesis was that Lust should be shifted from the category of Sin to that of Virtue.
sin virtue lust
Lust. Sex is no longer shameful. Our attitudes are fine.
sex lust attitudes
Nature itself may be heartless and free of desires, but amongst the creatures it has thrown up are some which are not heartless, and not free of desires.
nature desires creatures free
people theend
Why should thinkers mock the simple pieties of the people?
people
Thoughts are strange things. They have 'representational' powers: a thought typically represents the world as being one way or another. A sensation, by contrast, seems to just sit there.
contrast power
We can grieve over lost powers and memories, or rejoice over gained knowledge and maturity, according to taste.
power
It can seem an amazing fact that laws of nature keep on holding, that the frame of nature does not fall apart.
nature
In Michigan recently a man won a lawsuit for substantial damages because, he claimed, a rear-end collision in his car had made him a homosexual.
car man theend
Induction is the process of taking things within our experience to be representative of the world outside our experience. It is a process of projection or extrapolation.
experience
Motion however will not help unless we have things moving.
help
Myself, I have never seen a bumper sticker saying 'Hate if you Love Jesus', but I sometimes wonder why not. It would be a good slogan for the religious Right.
rights wonder wonders
Paradigms can be asked to show their worth, an some of them do not stand up.
worth
Chance is as relentless as necessity.
chance necessity
The word 'philosophy' carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird.
philosophy
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