Geuss Quotes

#1. A major danger in using highly abstractive methods in political philosophy is that one will succeed merely in generalizing one's own local prejudices and repackaging them as demands of reason. The study of history can help to counteract this natural human bias.

Raymond Geuss

#2. People stared. Maybe because they were giants compared to everyone else, both in height and muscle mass. Maybe because of the telltale bulge of weapons at their waist. Or maybe because William opened a bag of Doritos and ate while he shopped. Hard to tell.

Gena Showalter

#3. Turtle Tail, I know you'll always be with me," he called. "You waited a long time for our love to grow and it won't die now. I'll fight for you, Turtle Tail, and I'll make sure that your kits have a future on the moor, safe among friends." The clouds touched, becoming one. "I will not fail you.

Erin Hunter

#4. I view my own body as a petting zoo. I am the main attraction ... And the only customer.

Craig Ferguson

#5. The general point that a political theory is, among other things, a partisan intervention, is well taken. So question about the actual political implication of a theory cannot be excluded as, in principle, irrelevant.

Raymond Geuss

#6. Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.

Brooke Shields

#7. Asking what the question is, and why the question is asked, is always asking a pertinent question.

Raymond Geuss

#8. Can one understand politics without understanding history, especially the history of political thought, and will this distinguish political philosophy from some other kinds of philosophy (such as, perhaps, logic) to which the study of history is not integral?

Raymond Geuss

#9. He who bears injustice alone is terrible to behold.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing. The increase of crime is among those deprived of the regenerations that impregnate the mind and character of the fisherman.

Herbert Hoover

#11. The Kantian philosophy is no more than at best a half-secularized version of such a theocratic ethics, with "Reason" in the place of God. This does not amount to much more than a change of names.

Raymond Geuss

#12. I think people take the word 'feminist' really seriously, and I think people are scared to use that word.

Rita Ora

#13. Neither the good nor the true is self-realizing, so it is not generally a sufficient explanation of why people believe that X that X is true, or of why people do Y that Y is good.

Raymond Geuss

#14. One way ... in which a political philosophy can be ideological is by presenting a relatively marginal issue as if it were central and essential.

Raymond Geuss

#15. He's one of those rare creatures who can party like past-day Robert Downey Jr. and somehow be as successful and revered as present-day Robert Downey Jr.

Elle Kennedy

#16. Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

Eric Butterworth

#17. The idea that all problems either have a solution or can be shown to be pseudo-problems is not one I share.

Raymond Geuss

#18. I've never lost a game I just ran out of time.

Michael Jordan

#19. was beginning to think she'd lied about that.

V.J. Chambers

#20. Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

Eric Hoffer

#21. When Catullus expresses his love and hate for Lesbia, he is not obviously voicing a wish to rid himself of one or the other of these two sentiments. Not all contradictions resolve into temporal change of belief or desire.

Raymond Geuss

#22. People can perfect whatever facade they want, but everyone holds their sins close to their skin.

Jeaniene Frost

#23. We do not wish to "judge" or assess out surrounding merely as a kind of expressive activity carelessly projected onto the world, but we wish to evaluate the world "correctly," i.e., in according with that it truly is, and the desire to know is directed at determining what the world truly is.

Raymond Geuss