Jennifer Michael Hecht Professions : AuthorBorn : November 23, 1965 Browse All Authors Top 8 quotes by Jennifer Michael Hecht Your staying alive means so much more than you really know, or that anyone is aware of at this moment. Jennifer Michael Hecht alivemomentsmean We are humanity, Kant says. Humanity needs us because we are it. Kant believes in duty and considers remaining alive a primary human duty. For him one is not permitted to “renounce his personality,” and while he states living as a duty, it also conveys a kind of freedom: we are not burdened with the obligation of judging whether our personality is worth maintaining, whether our life is worth living. Because living it is a duty, we are performing a good moral act just by persevering. Jennifer Michael Hecht personalityjudgingbelieve A reasonable scale of probability-what is likely-forbids believing a whole range of imaginative possibilities, even though we do not know anything for sure. Jennifer Michael Hecht rangepossibilitybelieve If you look at a testimony of love from 2,000 years ago it can still exactly speak to you, whereas medical advice from only 100 years ago is ridiculous. Jennifer Michael Hecht advicelooksyears Like belief, doubt takes a lot of different forms, from ancient Skepticism to modern scientific empiricism, from doubt in many gods to doubt in one God, to doubt that recreates and enlivens faith and doubt that is really disbelief. Jennifer Michael Hecht differentbeliefdoubt How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass. Jennifer Michael Hecht prozacpopsgrass Lucian [of Samosata; 120-190 CE] was trying to make his audience laugh, rather than start a revolution Jennifer Michael Hecht revolutiontryinglaughing We believe each other into being. Jennifer Michael Hecht believe Similar Authors F. E. Marsh author Iimani David author Beatrice Faust author Isabella Macdonald Alden author Isabella Beeton author Alan AtKisson authorAll Authors
