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“My reason for arguing against abolishing these types of sports isn't some kind of lofty, philosophical rationale. It's just that I did it and I liked it. It comes down to a libertarian issue for me. I feel that if I know the risks and I want to take them, I should be allowed to do so.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Should Kind Reason Sports Issues Risk Type Philosophical Libertarian Arguing Lofty Rationale

Author:Jonathan Gottschall

“I know that previously I would not have dared to express myself so explicitly about so uncertain a matter. I can take this risk because I am now in my eighth decade, and the changing opinions of men scarcely impress me any more; the thoughts of the old masters are of greater value to me than the philosophical prejudices of the Western mind.”

Knows Men Mind I Can Matter Values Opinion Greater Risk Masters Prejudice Philosophical Western Decades Uncertain Impress

Author:Carl Jung

“Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.”

Risk Philosophical Fortune Yield Misfortunes Permit

Author:Virgil

“Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.”

Wells Courses Risk Opposites Philosophical Customs

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.”

Men Life Risk Philosophical Every Man Cute Preservation

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“LIVE. If you live, god will live with you. If you refuse to run his risks, he'll retreat to that distant heaven and be merely a subject for philosophical speculation.”

Ifs Running Heaven Risk Subjects Philosophical Refuse Gods Will Retreat Speculation

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith - when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith - this [is] subjectivity ... at its height.”

Risk Involved Philosophical Height Leap Nevertheless Subjectivity Leap Of Faith

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“...if there is a widely shared concept of intentional action... a philosophical analysis of intentional action that is wholly unconstrained by that concept runs the risk of having nothing more than a philosophical fiction as its subject matter.”

Ifs Matter Running Action Fiction Risk Subjects Concepts Philosophical Analysis Subject Matter

Author:Alfred Mele

“Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.”

Men Life Action Risk He Man Wise Words Philosophical Urges

Author:Seneca the Younger

“You are protected. But if you don't take risks, God will retreat and become only a subject of philosophical speculation.”

Ifs God Risk Subjects Philosophical Gods Will Protected Retreat Speculation

Author:Paulo Coelho