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“True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being.”

Should Reason Law Duty Rational Generosity Sovereign True Generosity

Book:The works of Oliver Goldsmith, ed. by P. Cunningham

Source: The works of Oliver Goldsmith, ed. by P. Cunningham

“Conversation in its happiest development is a link, equally exquisite and adequate, between mind and mind, a system by which men approach one another with sympathy and enjoyment, a field for the finest amenities of civilization, for the keenest and most intelligent display of social activity. It is also our solace, our inspiration, and our most rational pleasure. It is a duty we owe to one another; it is our common debt to humanity.”

“I think the idea that the hedge fund manager gets lower taxes than the taxi driver or the physics professor is insane. The legislators who leave that policy in place are derelict in their duties to be rational and fair. There are plenty of them in both political parties. It's totally outrageous.”

Thinking Ideas Political Party Policy Duty Taxes Fairs Physics Rational Insane Plenty Managers Fund Drivers Professors Political Parties Outrageous Taxi Legislators Hedge Fund Derelict

Author:Charlie Munger

“From whence it is obvious to conclude that, since our Faculties are not fitted to penetrate into the internal Fabrick and real Essences of Bodies; but yet plainly discover to us the Being of a GOD, and the Knowledge of our selves, enough to lead us into a full and clear discovery of our Duty, and great Concernment, it will become us, as rational Creatures, to imploy those Faculties we have about what they are most adapted to, and follow the direction of Nature, where it seems to point us out the way.”

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Book:An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (Complete)

Source: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (Complete)

“What is central to morality is rational self-constraint (acting from duty), in cease where there is no other incentive to do your duty except that the moral law commands it.”

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Author:Allen W. Wood

“Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.”

Ifs Men Father Literature Women Wife Duty Citizens Words Of Wisdom Husband Creatures Rational Neglect Good Wife Vindication Husband And Father

Book:A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects

Source: A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects

“The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice”

Seems Desire Choices Animal Particular Duty Tragedy Rational

Author:Mortimer Adler