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I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.


Alfred Nobel


#am #death #fund #i #i am

...I believe there is a legitimate aim of transcendence that is more modest and perhaps more realistic. We may not be able to rule out the skeptical possibility, and we may not be able to ground our normal capacity for understanding on something in which we can have even greater confidence; but it may still be possible to show how we can reasonably retain our natural confidence in the exercise of understanding, in spite of the apparent contingencies of our nature and formation. The hope is not to discover a foundation that makes our knowledge unassailably secure but to find a way of understanding ourselves that is not radically self-undermining, and that does not require us to deny the obvious. The aim would be to offer a plausible picture of how we fit into the world. Even in this more modest enterprise both theism and naturalistic reductionism fall short. Theism does not offer a sufficiently substantial explanation of our capacities, and naturalism does not offer a sufficiently reassuring one.


Thomas Nagel


#radically-self-undermining #skeptical #nature

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?


Honore de Balzac


#life #more #moreover #mystery #paris

The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national.


Malcolm Wallop


#declaration #designed #end #extraordinary #government






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