Harry Frankfurt Quotes
It is only because a person has volitions of the second order that he is capable both of enjoying and of lacking freedom of the will.
Harry Frankfurt
Quotes to Explore
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I can be very ordinary looking.
Rachel Tucker
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To me, evil comes when you have a choice between that and good, and you choose the wrong way.
D. B. Weiss
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Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.
Vernon Howard
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I think there are brilliant jokes to be made about abortion, and we should be able to talk about this in the way that we make jokes about death - you should be able to make jokes about everything.
Caitlin Moran
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I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I'm a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago.
M. J. Rose
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Force-backed humanitarianism, which relies on rational influence over events in other countries, may have been a more feasible project in the bipolar era of the Cold War, with its relatively defined and stable web of alliances and proxies.
Pankaj Mishra
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I think that any channel, whether it's Fox, CNN, or whatever, if they were truly giving a 360-view of what's going on, we would be better equipped to not slap judgments on people we really don't understand.
David Oyelowo
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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
Stephen Covey
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Just the very thought of someone my age going to visit old girlfriends had instant appeal.Even women think, 'That would be interesting.' Not comfortable, but interesting. It is not a comfortable film at any point.
Bill Murray
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In many ways, I think I've always overcompensated. I was always almost too careful, because I knew if anybody ever found any way to doubt my work, then they'd start picking my life apart, too.
Jose Antonio Vargas
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It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballot; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountain top and pointed the way to the Promised Land. Yes we can!
Barack Obama
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It is only because a person has volitions of the second order that he is capable both of enjoying and of lacking freedom of the will.
Harry Frankfurt
