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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.
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The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not.
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Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.
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There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.
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Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.
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At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.
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A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change,
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To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world.
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If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope?
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The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.
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Had there been no Plato, the Christians would have had a harder time selling the idea that all God really wanted from us was fraternal love.
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My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have … "an ambition of transcendence."
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Truthfulness under oath is, by now, a matter of our civic religion, our relation to our fellow citizens rather than our relation to a nonhuman power.
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Truth is a property of sentences, since sentences are dependent for their existence upon vocabularies, and since vocabularies are made by human beings, so are truths.
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Contemporary intellectuals have given up the Enlightenment assumption that religion, myth, and tradition can be opposed to something ahistorical, something common to all human beings qua human.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
October 4, 1931
Died:
June 8, 2007
(aged 75)
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