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Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.

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Martha C. Nussbaum

As we tell stories about the lives of others, we learn how to imagine what another creature might feel in response to various events. At the same time, we identify with the other creature and learn something about ourselves.

Creature, Empathy, Events, Identify, Stories, Tell
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To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.

Fragility, Human, Kind, Trust, Uncertain, World

Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.

Bad, Behavior, Guarantees, Ignorance, Knowledge

To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you were not to blame. That says something very important about the condition of the ethical life: that it is based on a trust in the uncertain and on a willingness to be exposed; it’s based on being more like a plant than like a jewel, something rather fragile, but whose very particular beauty is inseparable from that fragility.

Ability, Good, Human, Important, Jewels, Risk

Our emotional life maps our incompleteness: A creature without any needs would never have reasons for fear, or grief, or hope, or anger.

Anger, Emotional, Grief, Hope, Needs, Reasons

The humanities prepare students to be good citizens and help them understand a complicated, interlocking world. The humanities teach us critical thinking, how to analyze arguments, and how to imagine life from the point of view of someone unlike yourself.

Humanity, Thinking, Understand, View, Views
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