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“In order to get over the ethical difficulties presented by the naive naturalism of many parts of those Scriptures, in the divine authority of which he firmly believed, Philo borrowed from the Stoic...”
“Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.”
“Act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done by hesitation.”
“The great end of life is not knowledge but action.”
“In fact a favourite problem of [John Tyndall] is—Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the Physics of the Future will solve this easily.”
“The practice of that which is ethically best—what we call goodness or virtue—involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is opposed to that which leads to success in the cosmic struggle fo...”
