Preference Quotes

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...

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.