Philosophy Quotes

"To be is to be situated in the world."

"Emotion is a form of consciousness engaged with the world."

"The social world is constructed through our choices."

"The absurd arises when consciousness meets an indifferent world."

"Human consciousness is always consciousness of something."

"A man belongs to the tradition he belongs to, and this belonging is constitutive of what he is."

"Without narrative, human life itself becomes unintelligible."

"Modern liberalism has lost sight of the concept of virtue."

"The practice of philosophy begins in wonder and must retain that sense of wonder."

"Institutions embody the goods internal to practices and traditions."

"Reason must be understood as embodied and embedded in tradition."

"Moral disagreement arises because we inhabit different traditions."

"The modern self is fragmented because it lacks a coherent narrative."

"The good of a practice is internal to that practice, not imposed from outside."

"Belonging to a tradition means being accountable to its standards of excellence."

"The loss of shared standards has made genuine moral debate nearly impossible."

"Understanding oneself requires understanding one's place in the larger human community."

"A community is united not merely by shared beliefs but by shared practices and goods."

"Self-knowledge is not self-examination in solitude but understanding oneself through relationships."

"The rational is not opposed to the emotional but integrated with it in human flourishing."

"Responsibility requires being answerable to a community with shared standards of judgment."

"The good of the individual and the good of the community are inseparable."

"To understand a person, we must understand the traditions that have formed them."

"Argument and debate are goods internal to philosophical practice."

"The modern fragmentation of values reflects a fragmentation in our understanding of human nature."

"The loss of metaphysics has impoverished our moral language."

"The concept of progress requires a telos, an end toward which we are moving."

"A narrative is intelligible only within a tradition of narrative interpretation."

"Moral relativism becomes incoherent when we actually try to live by it."

"The good life requires not just individual virtue but participation in just institutions."