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I think when war becomes your life, I think its very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.

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None of us can study anything properly unless we do it with our whole being.

Properly, Study, Unless, Whole
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The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death. There is a kind of gestalt-shift between the two positions which makes it hard to change, and hard to raise questions on the matter at all without becoming embattled.

Death, Eating, Kind, Life, Philosophy, Vegetarian

Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling us our origin it shapes our views of what we are. It influences not just our thought, but our feelings and actions too, in a way which goes far beyond its official function as a biological theory.

Actions, Age, Evolution, Feelings, Views, Way

What great philosophers do for us is not to hand out such an all-purpose system. It is to light up and clarify some special aspect of life, to supply conceptual tools which will do a certain necessary kind of work. Wide though that area of work may be, it is never the whole, and all ideas lose their proper power when they are used out of their appropriate context. That is why one great philosopher does not necessarily displace another, why there is room for all of them and a great many more whom we do not have yet.

Certain, Clarify, Hands, Ideas, Light, Necessary

The trouble with human beings is not really that they love themselves too much; they ought to love themselves more. The trouble is simply that they don’t love others enough. "The End of Anthropocentrism?

Beings, Enough, Human, Too Much, Trouble

The world in which the kestrel moves, the world that it sees, is, and always will be, entirely beyond us. That there are such worlds all around us is an essential feature of our world.

Entirely, Essential, Essentials, Moves, Moving, Our World
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