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What am I to do?' if I can answer the prior question 'Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?
— Alasdair MacIntyre
For Kant one can be both good and stupid; but for Aristotle stupidity of a certain kind precludes goodness.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
Would certainly not have admired Jesus Christ and he would have been horrified by St Paul - does
— Alasdair MacIntyre
The mock rationality of the debate conceals the arbitrariness of the will and power at work in its resolution. It
— Alasdair MacIntyre
The way to bring out the best in the British people is to attack them.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
But the concept of a person is that of a character abstracted from a history.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
The introduction of the word 'intuition' by a moral philosopher is always a signal that something has gone badly wrong with an argument.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
Truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
The true genre of the life is neither hagiography nor saga, but tragedy.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture
— Alasdair MacIntyre
I am quite sane, according to my three distinct personalities and my seven passive ones.
— The Paper Doll
Christians have given atheists less and less in which to disbelieve
— Alasdair MacIntyre
We are not waiting for a Godot, but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
What our laws show is the extent and degree to which conflict has to be suppressed.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
All power tends to coopt, and absolute power coopts absolutely.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
Naps are the lacy fringe of life.
— Susan J. Berger
History is neither a prison nor a museum, nor is it a set of materials for self-congratulation.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
We are never more (and sometimes less) than the co-authors of our own narratives.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
I can be said truly to know who and what I am only because there are others who can be said truly to know who and what I am.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
The exercise of the virtues is itself a crucial component of the good life for man
— Alasdair MacIntyre
At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
Morality which is no particular socity's morality is to be found nowhere.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
Shall we go learn to kiss, to kiss?Never heart could ever miss
Comfort, where true meaning is. — Nicholas Breton
Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
If it were true that children mimicked their teachers, you'd sure have a helluva lot more nuns running around.
— Harvey Milk
