“Chance is as relentless as necessity.”
Source: Think (1999), Chapter Three, Free Will, p. 85
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Source: Think (1999), Chapter Five, God, p. 170
“Contemporary culture is not very good on responsibility.”
Source: Think (1999), Chapter Three, Free Will, p. 105
“Paradigms can be asked to show their worth, an some of them do not stand up.”
Source: Think (1999), Chapter Six, Reasoning, p. 231
“In the end, it is ideas for which people kill each other.”
Introduction, p. 11
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Simon Blackburn, Being Good (2001)
Simon Blackburn Quotes about the world
Source: Think (1999), Chapter Six, Reasoning, p. 225
“What underlies our assignment of probabilities in the real world?”
Source: Think (1999), Chapter Six, Reasoning, p. 212
Source: Think (1999), Chapter One, Knowledge, p. 17
Source: Think (1999), Chapter Five, God, p. 169
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“Since there is no telling in advance where it may lead, reflection can be seen as dangerous.”
Introduction, p. 11
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Context: We hope for lives whose story leaves us looking admirable; we like our weaknesses to be hidden and deniable... We want to enjoy our lives, and we want to enjoy them with a good conscience... Ethics is disturbing. We are often vaguely uncomfortable when we think of such things as exploitation of the world's resources, or the way our comforts are provided by the miserable labour conditions of the third world... Racists and sexists, like antebellum slave owners in America, always have to tell themselves a story that justifies their system.
Simon Blackburn, Being Good (2001)
Source: Think (1999), Chapter Four, The Self, p. 136
“Finding a mechanism does not bypass the problem of induction.”
Source: Think (1999), Chapter Six, Reasoning, p. 227
Source: Think (1999), Chapter Five, God, p. 162
Source: Think (1999), Chapter Four, The Self, p. 146
“There was content, but no container.”
Source: Think (1999), Chapter Four, The Self, p. 135
“Motion however will not help unless we have things moving.”
Source: Think (1999), Chapter Seven, The World, p. 244
“Why should thinkers mock the simple pieties of the people?”
Source: Think (1999), Chapter Five, God, p. 190
Source: Think (1999), Chapter Three, Free Will, p. 106
“But if nothing does as well as something about which nothing can be said, it vanishes.”
Source: Think (1999), Chapter Five, God, p. 173
“Perhaps to restore human freedom we should deny determinism?”
Source: Think (1999), Chapter Three, Free Will, p. 84
Source: Think (1999), Chapter Five, God, p. 191
“The word "philosophy" carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird.”
Introduction, p. 1
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Source: Think (1999), Chapter Eight, What To Do, p. 270
Source: Think (1999), Chapter Two, Mind, p. 78
Source: Think (1999), Chapter Eight, What To Do, p. 278-279
Source: Think (1999), Chapter Three, Free Will, p. 117
