Sublime

it’s easier to hold to your principles 100 percent of the time than it is to hold to them 98 percent of the time. The boundary—your personal moral line—is powerful, because you don’t cross it; if you have justified doing it once, there’s nothing to stop you doing it again.

Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about.

In certain cases, moreover, what moves us is an especially notable variant of caring: namely, love. In proposing to expand the repertoire upon which the theory of practical reason relies, these are the additional concepts that I have in mind: what we care about, what is important to us, and what we love.

an issue of personal consistency with our word.

You know someone matters to you if they can frustrate you.

truth of the premises logically (on pain of contradiction) requires the truth of the conclusion.

Suppose now that someone is performing an action that he wants to perform; and suppose further that his motive in performing this action is a motive by which he truly wants to be motivated.

Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about.