Preference Quotes

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the ...

To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal n...

The valuations which result in determination of definite prices are different. Each party attaches a...

For a merely conscious being, death is the cessation of experiences, in much the same way that birth...

I agree with Varner and Scruton that the more one thinks of one's life as a story that has chapters ...

For preference utilitarians, taking the life of a person will normally be worse than taking the life...

All tastes are expressions of belief.

For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded ...

Some people like to hear themselves talk, but I like to hear myself silent.

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to th...

How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education. If a man could not look at th...