Top 26 Kwame Appiah Quotes

#1. To create a life is to create a life out of the materials that history has given you.

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#2. If someone hates you, they won't ask you for things.

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#3. Each class would have preached the importance of those virtues, for whose exercise there was no necessity in their own lives.

Oscar Wilde

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#4. I started philosophy looking for answers. But along the way I came to prize exploring the questions. Progress in philosophy consists, I think, in a clearer delineation of the conceptual options, not in reaching determinate conclusions.

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#5. Every time I think I'm about to seize the moment, it drifts back into the shadows, just beyond my reach.

Paula Hawkins

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#6. Da-da chum da-da che, not to worry you've got the key!

Stephen King

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#7. It's important to understand that while honor is an entitlement to respect
and shame comes when you lose that title
a person of honor cares first of all not about being respected but about being worthy of respect.

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#8. Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.

John Hawkes

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#9. In life, the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you're playing

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#10. What drives me is winning championships.

Tony Parker

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#11. Cultures are made of continuities and changes, and the identity of a society can survive through these changes. Societies without change aren't authentic; they're just dead

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#12. A value is like a fax machine: it's not much use if you're the only one who has one.

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#13. I am not alone is doubting the imperative to respect cultures, as opposed to persons; and I believe we can respect persons only inasmuch as we consider them as abstract rights-holders.

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#14. This is, of course, an easy Berlinian riposte. Start with some graceful hand waving about incommensurability; declare that nothing could reconcile these great goods; and (with a tip of trilby) commend liberal pluralism for living with the contradictions.

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#15. I am urging that we should learn about people in other places, take an interest in their civilizations, their arguments, their errors, their achievements, not because that will bring us to agreement, but because it will help us get used to one another.

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#16. Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.

Van Morrison

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#17. In short - to overstate the point only slightly - because people don't really know why they do what they do, they give explanations of their own behavior that are about as reliable as anyone else's, and in many circumstances actually less so.

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#18. Morality, on the other hand, as Immanuel Kant insisted, is ultimately practical: though it matters morally what we think and feel, morality is, at its heart, about what we do.

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#19. The most reliable predictor of whether students liked a course, it turned out, was their answer to the question 'Did the professor respect you?

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#20. Conversation doesn't have to lead to consensus about anything especially not values; it's enough that it helps people get used to one another

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#21. Any idol, regardless of its beauty or usefulness or original purpose, is to be set aside so that Christ might reign supreme, without a single competitor.

Charles R. Swindoll

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#22. The phrase 'academic freedom' is often used carelessly: here is a work that will allow a more careful conversation about those many crucial issues facing the academy, in which a well-worked out understanding of conceptions of academic freedom is, as its authors show, an essential tool.

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#23. Possibly, there was something to be said for the intellectual discipline of second-guessing what you thought was true.

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#24. (And, like many philosophers, I am of the school that what goes without saying often goes even better with saying.)

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#25. The challenge, then, is to take minds and hearts formed over the long millennia of living in local troops and equip them with ideas and institutions that will allow us to live together as the global tribe we have become.

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#26. it's a fitting salute to a heroine who rose over bad costumes and unflattering cinematography (remember those days of relentless soft-focus?) to become the sole reason many of us watched Hindi films at one time. And all these years on, Madhuri Dixit still makes it look as easy as ek, do, teen.

Baradwaj Rangan

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