Ernest Sosa Quotes
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
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The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.
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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
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To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.
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Most public officials work hard to serve the public good and abide by Oregon's ethics laws.
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A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
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Trading forces someone to think hard; those who merely work hard generally lose their focus and intellectual energy. In addition, they end up drowning in randomness; work ethics draw people to focus on noise rather than the signal.
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Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese.
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And as, in ethics, Evil is a consequence of Good, so, in fact, out of Joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are, have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.
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Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life - it is bad to damage and destroy life. And this ethic, profound and universal, has the significance of a religion. It is religion.
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As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
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I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
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I believe in capitalism. I need to make a profit, but I would like to do it with ethics, dignity, morals. It's my dream.
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Ethics in government has always been important to me.
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Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
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The Office of Congressional Ethics was created to provide more transparency in the House of Representatives. It was a commendable goal.
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The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.
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I teach ethics at the FBI academy, which is ironic.
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My time is up. I believe … that my time to be with my spiritual father and his sender has come. And your time to go through serious trial has come.
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For the next inn he spurs amain, In haste alights, and skuds away, But time and tide for no man stay.
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Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics.
