We Are Doomed To Choose And Every

The Trouble With Academics And Commentators Is That They Care More About Whether Ideas Are Interesting Than Whether They Are True.

Few Things Have Done More Harm Than The Belief On The Part Of Individuals Or Groups (or Tribes Or States Or Nations Or Churches) That He Or She Or They Are In Sole Possession Of The Truth: Especially About How To Live, What To Be And Do - And That Those Who Differ From Them Are Not Merely Mistaken, But Wicked Or Mad: And Need Restraining Or Suppressing.

The Case Against The Notion Of Historical Objectivity Is Like The Case Against International Law, Or International Morality; That It Does Not Exist.

I Wish My Life And Decisions To Depend Upon Myself, Not On External Forces Of Whatever Kind. I Wish To Be The Instrument Of My Own, Not Other Men's, Acts Of Will. I Wish To Be The Subject, Not An Object...i Wish To Be Somebody, Not Nobody; A Doer - Deciding, Not Being Decided For, Slef-directed And Not Acted Upon By External Nature Or By Other Men As If I Were A Thing, Or An Animal, Or A Slave Incapable Of Playing A Human Role, That Is, Of Conceiving Goals And Policies Of My Own And Realizing Them.

The Notion Of The Perfect Whole, The Ultimate Solution In Which All Good Things Coexist, Seems To Me Not Merely Unobtainable--that Is A Truism--but Conceptually Incoherent. ......some Among The Great Goods Cannot Live Together. That Is A Conceptual Truth. We Are Doomed To Choose, And Every Choice May Entail An Irreparable Loss.