Simon Blackburn: Quotes about people

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“Why should thinkers mock the simple pieties of the people?”

Simon Blackburn

Source: Think (1999), Chapter Five, God, p. 190

“In the end, it is ideas for which people kill each other.”

Simon Blackburn

Introduction, p. 11
Think (1999)

“According to Confucianism, the ideal life contains a large dose of respect for traditional ways. All these ideals can be fleshed out and painted in more or less attractive colours. Yet there is something uncomfortable about them, if only because there is little reason to suppose that there is any such thing as the ideal life. Since different people have different tastes and interests, and different cultures encourage different concerns, it seems unlikely that any 'ideal life' will be heavily contextualized: ideal for this person in these circumstances, perhaps, but not much more.”

Simon Blackburn

Source: Think (1999), Chapter Eight, What To Do, p. 278-279