Nobody seems to know how to deal with it. I have the heart of a little boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk. For a moment I thought it was a menage a quatre. On presuppositions and the like.
Pretensions are a mortgage which burden a philosophers capacity to think.
I have often thought that morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago. The greatest giver of alms is cowardice. It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.