„Auch im Entwerfen der Handlung ist Wagner vor allem Schauspieler.“ (p. 367) #Nietzsche #Wagner
„Handle so, daß die Maxime deines Willens jedrzeit zugleich als Prinzip einer allgemeinen Gesetzgebung gelten könne.“ (p. 54) #Kant #MaximedeinesWillens
„Each person maintains that equality is the dictate of justice, except where he thinks that expediency requires inequality. The justice of giving equal protection to the rights of all, is maintained by those who support the most outrageous inequality in the rights themselves.“ (p. 91) #Mill # Equality
„No philosophic knowledge of the general nature and constitution of tendencies, or of the relation of larger to smaller ones, can help us to predict which of all the various competing tendencies that interest us in this universe are likeliest to prevail.“ (p. 187) #James #knowledge
„By commonwealth, I must be understood all along to mean, not a democracy, or any form of government, but any independent community, which the Latines signified by the word civitas, to which the word which best answers in our language, is commonwealth, and most properly expresses such a society of men, which community or city in English does not“. (p. 167) #Locke #commonwealth #civitas