"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act,
is founded on compromise and barter...
Man acts from motives relative to his interests;
and not on metaphysical speculation"
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Today's Philosophical Thought
To start addressing a perceived imbalance in my recent choices to quote, here are some words of wisdom from Edmund Burke, the eminent 18th Century British political thinker.
"All government, indeed every human benefit
and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act,
is founded on compromise and barter...
Man acts from motives relative to his interests;
and not on metaphysical speculation"
"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act,
is founded on compromise and barter...
Man acts from motives relative to his interests;
and not on metaphysical speculation"
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