“Nowadays, to say that we are clever animals is not to say something philosophical and pessimistic but something political and hopeful - namely, if we can work together, we can make ourselves into whatever we are clever and courageous enough to imagine ourselves becoming. This is to set aside Kant's question "What is man?" and to substitute the question "What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren?” IfsMenWorldEnoughTogetherPoliticalAnimalImagineBecomingPhilosophicalCleverHopefulWorking TogetherCourageousSubstitutesGrandchildrenPessimisticTogether We CanGreat Grandchildren Book:Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers Source: Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers
“I think the process of being hopeful, being really opportunity oriented, not just in rhetoric but in action, showing that no one get's left behind, not just by talking about it but by doing it, I think is really a key [to political success].” ThinkingActionPoliticalOpportunityLeftProcessBehindsTalkingKeysHopefulBeing RealRhetoricLeft Behind Author:John Kasich