On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
“On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.”
— Adam Smith · Ambiguity
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On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
“On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.”
— Adam Smith · Ambiguity
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“On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.”
“Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.”
“What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?”
“Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.”
“Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.”
“With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.”
“I tell my students, if you ever become comfortable with your role as criminal defense lawyer, it's time to quit. It should be a constant source of discomfort, because you're dealing with incredible moral ambiguity, and you've been cast into a role which is not enviable.”
“Men tend to try to struggle to be more rational and reduce things to simplicity more and are more impatient with ambiguity than women are.”
“All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.”
“I really like people to be able to interpret stuff in their own way, I like the ambiguity of the medium. We're just four guys in a band trying to articulate things in a questioning way. Who are we to tell people what to think?”
“It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of the need to find new ways of reading the past as an inspiring way of thinking about everything else, including the present.”
“Evangelicalism as a movement is rushing headlong toward theological ambiguity, which is another way of saying apostasy.”