I know he thinks he’s looking at his wife, and not me, but how lucky can a woman be to have a man look at her that way? Like he’ll destroy the world as long as she stays safe.
contractualism
On this view the idea of justifiability to others is taken to be basic in two ways. First, it is by thinking about what could be justified to others on grounds that they could not reasonably reject that we determine the shape of more specific moral notions such as murder or betrayal. Second, the idea that we have reason to avoid actions that could not be justified in this way accounts for the distinctive normative force of moral wrongness.
Sayfa 5 - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Third printing, 2000
Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right. You Can Go Your Own Way. God Only Knows What We’ll Be Without You.
“She had known three types of silence in relationships. There was passive-aggressive silence, obviously, there was the we-no-longer-have-anything-to-say silence, and then there was the silence that Eduardo and she seemed to have cultivated. The silence of not needing to talk. Of just being together, of together-being. The way you could be happily silent with yourself.”
"you’re hurt," he said to the bundle of wet clothes. it wasn't the arms crossed tightly over the form's chest that gave it away, or the dark stain on one sleeve, darker even than the rain, or the way the figure pulled back sharply when he reached out a hand. victor smelled pain the way a wolf smelled blood. tuned to it.
victor knew pain too well to be fooled by the defiant look.
We’re basically family, if you think about it. I’ve seen more of them than my actual family these past ten years… If any of them feel sick or happy or sad, I immediately feel the same way. It just
happened like that, all of a sudden. When they suffer, I want to be next to them, and when they rejoice, I want to laugh with them, and when they have worries, I want to listen to them… I think that’s who we are to each other.
Chapter 7 | INTRO: We’re Now Going to Progress to Some StepsKitabı okudu
The thing is, I don't remember loving anybody or being loved. There's no way someone like that could be an idol.
Epigram
Yes! 'tis the time (I cried) impose the chain,
Destined and due to wretches self-enslaved;
But when I saw such charity remain,
I half could wish this people should be saved.
Faith lost, and Hope, our Charity begins ;
And 'tis a wise design in pitying Heaven,
If this can cover multitude of sins,
To take the only way to be forgiven.
Sayfa 392Kitabı okudu
"You love your virtue as the mother her child; but when did anyone ever hear that a mother wanted to be paid for her love?
Your virtue is your dearest self. The ring’s thirst is in you; every ring struggles and turns to reach itself again.
And each work of your virtue is like the star that dies out; always its light is still on its way and wandering – and when will it no longer be on its way?
Thus the light of your virtue is still underway, even when the work is done. And even if now forgotten and dead, its ray of light still lives and wanders.
Your virtue should be your self and not a foreign thing, a skin, a cloaking: that is the truth from the ground of your soul, you virtuous!"
On the VirtuousKitabı okuyor
We don’t all need to be Einsteins or even physicists to appreciate how light behaves or to understand something profound about the nature of space and time, in just the same way we don’t need to have studied vaccinology to understand that getting a flu jab will protect us. We can stand on the shoulders of giants, lean on the strengths and knowledge of others who have put in the years to gain expertise that can then be shared with the rest of us. So, even if we encounter something we don’t understand right away, we can still make an effort and take some time to try. Sometimes it is for no better reason than to expand our minds; sometimes it can help us make a decision that will benefit us in our daily lives. Either way, we are the richer for it.
