Will Strauss
Will Strauss
wise ignorance issues
According to our social science, we can be or become wise in all matters of secondary importance, but we have to be resigned to utter ignorance in the most important respect: we cannot have any knowledge regarding the ultimate principles of our choices, i.e. regarding their soundness or unsoundness... We are then in the position of beings who are sane and sober when engaged in trivial business and who gamble like madmen when confronted with serious issues.
wise meaningful men
The silence of a wise man is always meaningful.
understood
One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood.
pursuit-of-happiness roots tolerance
Liberal relativism has its roots in the natural right tradition of tolerance or in the notion that everyone has a natural right to the pursuit of happiness as he understands happiness; but in itself it is a seminary of intolerance.
political wish action
All political action aims at either preservation or change. When desiring to preserve, we wish to prevent a change for the worse; when desiring to change, we wish to bring about something better. All political action is then guided by some thought of better or worse.
men evil envy
No bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the evil in man: as long as there will be men, there will be malice, envy and hatred, and hence there cannot be a society which does not have to employ coercive restraint.
men hatred tolerance
Absolute tolerance is altogether impossible; the allegedly absolute tolerance turns into ferocious hatred of those who have stated clearly and most forcefully that there are unchangeable standards founded in the nature of man and the nature of things.
fate people redemption
The Jewish people and their fate are the living witness for the absence of redemption. This, one could say, is the meaning of the chosen people; the Jews are chosen to prove the absence of redemption.
bunch fans
He (Bateman) is one of a bunch of fans like that.
centuries guy imagine turning
I just can't imagine a guy who's made more than 70 international centuries turning up at Lord's and getting booed.
conducting should audience
don't perspire while conducting - only the audience should get warm.
funny-things dying way
Its a funny thing Alice, dying is just the way I composed it in Tod und Verklärung.
soul opera aria
The aria, after all, is the soul of opera.
music looks brass
Never look at the brass - it only encourages them.