Best philosophical & behavior Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If you defend a behavior by arguing that people are programmed directly for it, then how do you continue to defend it if your speculation is wrong, for the behavior then becomes unnatural and worthy of condemnation. Better to stick resolutely to a philosophical position on human liberty: what free adults do with each other in their own private lives is their business alone. It need not be vindicated and must not be condemned by genetic speculation.”

People Ifs Needs Humans Life Is Liberty Position Behavior Adults Philosophical Sticks Worthy Arguing Speculation Private Life Unnatural Condemnation Vindicated

Book:Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History

Source: Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History

“Of the opinions of philosophy I most gladly embrace those that are most solid, that is to say, most human and most our own; my opinions, in conformity with my conduct, are low and humble.”

Humans Philosophy Opinion Behavior Lows Philosophical Embrace Humble Conformity

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“Nothing can be more real, or concern us more, than our own sentiments of pleasure and uneasiness; and if these be favourable to virtue and unfavourable to vice, no more can be requisite to the regulation of our conduct and behavior.”

Ifs Real Pleasure Virtue Behavior Concern Philosophical Vices Sentiments Regulation Uneasiness

Book:A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects; and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

Source: A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects; and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

“Early Christianity, like Roman-era philosophical traditions, laid emphasis on everyday behavior, about how to live your life.”

Christianity Behavior Tradition Philosophical Everyday Eras Live Your Life Emphasis

Author:Larry Hurtado

“To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.”

People Thinking Knows Life Inspirational Pay Behavior Philosophical Regard

Author:George Santayana

“The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.”

Mean Language Common Mankind Behavior Philosophical

Book:Philosophical Investigations

Source: Philosophical Investigations

“Of course, if you photograph the behavior of women and men at a particular time in history, in a particular situation, you will capture differences. But the error lies in inferring that a snapshot is a lasting picture. What women and men do at a moment in time tells us nothing about what women and men are in some unvarying sense - or about what they can be.”

Ifs Men Moments Lying Courses Differences Situation Particular Behavior Men And Women Philosophical Errors Photograph Lasting Capture Moments In Time Snapshots

Book:Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex

Source: Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex

“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”

Source: The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide

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