Top 19 Raymond Geuss Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?
Orison Swett Marden
#4. A free and rooted society ought to consist of a web of moral obligations. We have the right to ignore them, but we ought to be actually obliged not to let other people starve or to let them lapse into destitution.
Pankaj Mishra
#5. The first duty of every soul is to find not its freedom but its Master.
P.T. Forsyth
#6. Asking what the question is, and why the question is asked, is always asking a pertinent question.
Raymond Geuss
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. Here, in the vanguard, beyond the borders of knowledge, science becomes even more beautiful - incandescent in the forge of nascent ideas, of intuitions, of attempts. Of roads taken and then abandoned, of enthusiasms. In the effort to imagine what has not yet been imagined. Twenty
Carlo Rovelli
#11. 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
#12. Most US corporations today are over-managed and under-led. They need to develop their capacity to exercise leadership.
John P. Kotter
#13. If you dig a grave for your neighbour, first measure it for yourself.
Diana Darke
#14. The idea that all problems either have a solution or can be shown to be pseudo-problems is not one I share.
Raymond Geuss
#15. I suppose that it doesn't matter whether a song is written or sung by a man or a woman. If the sentiment is there, it captures the audience.
Emmy Rossum
#16. 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
#17. Memories were just photos printed on synapses.
Ali Shaw
#19. 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
