From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen.
Instead of trying to prove your opponent wrong, try to see in what sense he might be right.
Is there really someone who, searching for a group of wise and sensitive persons to regulate him for his own good, would choose that group of people that constitute the membership of both houses of Congress?
It goes without saying that any persons may attempt to unite kindred spirits, but, whatever their hopes and longings, none have the right to impose their vision of unity upon the rest.
No one has ever announced that because determinism is true thermostats do not control temperature.
Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth.
Philosophical argument, trying to get someone to believe something whether he wants to believe it or not, is not, I have held, a nice way to behave towards someone; also it does not fit the original motivation for studying or entering philosophy.
The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.
There is room for words on subjects other than last words.
Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.
What else can matter to us, other than how our lives feel from the inside?
Whatever arises from a just situation by just steps is itself just.
Why are philosophers intent on forcing others to believe things? Is that a nice way to behave towards someone?
You can't satisfy everybody; especially if there are those who will be dissatisfied unless not everybody is satisfied.
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