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4485 Philosopher Quotes

Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice.

Assume Threat Advantage Justice
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A society regulated by a public sense of justice is inherently stable.

Society Public sense Justice Stable
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Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.

Conflict Ourselves Judgement Dogmatic
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The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.

Bad man Power Love Injustice
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No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society.

No one Capacity Merits Society
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An injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice

Injustice Tolerable Avoid
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Justice is happiness according to virtue.
Justice Happiness Virtue
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The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.

Principles Justice Veil Ignorance
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The sense of justice is continuous with the love of mankind

Sense Justice Love Mankind
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The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek the advantages of just institutions while not doing their share to uphold them

Intolerant Persons Advantages Institutions
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I'm concerned about the survival, historically, of constitutional democracy.

Concerned Survival Historically Democracy
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Each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others.

Person Equal right Basic Liberty
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In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed

Pursuit Money Political systems Power
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Ideal legislators do not vote their interests.

Ideal Legislators Vote Interests
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Justice is the first virtue of social institutions

Justice Virtue Social institutions
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A just system must generate its own support.

System Generate Support
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We may suppose that everyone has in himself the whole form of a moral conception

Suppose Everyone Form Moral
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Intuitionism is not constructive, perfectionism is unacceptable.

Intuitionism Perfectionism Unacceptable
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The fault of the utilitarian doctrine is that it mistakes impersonality for impartiality.

Fault Doctrine Mistakes Impersonality
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The circumstances of justice may be described as the normal conditions under which human cooperation is both possible and necessary.

Justice Human Possible Necessary
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The fundamental criterion for judging any procedure is the justice of its likely results.

Fundamental Judging Justice Results
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Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.

Truth Agreement Ideas God
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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?

Dwell God Neglect Forsake
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The harder the heart is, the more dead is it in sin, and the more unable to exert good affections and acts.

Heart Dead Sin Affections
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Evangelical faith has the gospel of Christ for its foundation

Faith Gospel Christ Foundation
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.

Unconverted Men Walk over Hell
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is to life.
Prayer Expression Faith Life
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions

Godliness Easily Words Actions
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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.

Lord Eternity Eyeballs
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.

Contribute Salvation Sin
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Nothing sets a Christian so much out of the devil's reach than humility.

Nothing Christian Devil's Humility
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God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.

Purpose Life Passion Glory
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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

Resolution Live God
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He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.

Knowledge Affection Business Religion
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Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.

Knowledge Obtain God Important
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Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.

Resolved Live Wish Die
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Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.

Grow Knowledge Applause Souls
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From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.

Love Hatred Contrary Delight
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One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.

Defects Conceive Children Understanding
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Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.

Study Scriptures Grow Knowledge
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.. it is for God, when he pleases, to cast his enemies down to hell...

God Pleases Enemies Hell
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The good Lord grant, that false religion may cease, and true religion prevail through the earth!

Lord Religion Prevail Earth
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Greatest concern is not for your health, or temporal welfare, but for the good of your soul.

Concern Health Welfare Soul
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Our Redeemer, who was infinitely the most wonderful example of love that was ever witnessed.

Redeemer Wonderful Love Witnessed
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Nothing grieves me so much as that I cannot live constantly to God’s glory.

Grieves Live God's glory
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Grace of God in bestowing this gift is most free. It was what God was under no obligation to bestow: he might have rejected fallen man, as he did the fallen angels.

Grace God Gift Obligation
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Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.

Grace Glory Heart Future
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Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.

Holiness Pleasant Purity Soul
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When indeed it is in God we live, and move, and have our being. We cannot draw a breath without his help.

God Live Being Breath
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All earthly desires are but streams, but God is the ocean.

Earthly desires Stream God Ocean
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