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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
They say the first of my kind was Alasdair, a human raised by hawks. She learned the languages of birds and was gifted with their form.
— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Her book was filled with centaurs because she had not fully grasped the complexity of actual people, actual horses.
— Alasdair Gray
The way to bring out the best in the British people is to attack them.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart.
— Alasdair Gray
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
Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.
— Alasdair Gray
I have the longing that all writers have for new ears to pour my words into.
— Alasdair MacLean
It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it.
— Alasdair Gray
You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable.
— Alasdair Gray
The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture
— Alasdair MacIntyre
I ought to have more love before I die. I've not had enough.
— Alasdair Gray
At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.
— 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
Lanark said irritably, "You seem to understand my questions, but your answers make no sense to me."
"That's typical of life, isn't it? — Alasdair Gray
"That's typical of life, isn't it? — Alasdair Gray
Dear God I am tired. It is late. Writing like Shakespeare is hard work for a woman with a cracked head who cannot spell properly.
— Alasdair Gray
History is neither a prison nor a museum, nor is it a set of materials for self-congratulation.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having.
— Alasdair Gray
What our laws show is the extent and degree to which conflict has to be suppressed.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
I'm afraid you'll have to take up art. Art is the only work open to people who can't get along with others and still want to be special.
— Alasdair Gray
But leaders need to be mostly dead. People want solid monuments to cling to, not confused men like themselves.
— Alasdair Gray
We are not waiting for a Godot, but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
Christians have given atheists less and less in which to disbelieve
— Alasdair MacIntyre
Do what is right and what is good.
Bryeison to Alasdair before going to his death on the battlefield. — Michelle Franklin
Bryeison to Alasdair before going to his death on the battlefield. — Michelle Franklin
Alasdair Fraser's Culburnie Records has quietly become one of the best Celtic music labels today.
— Jim Lee
Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses.
— Alasdair Gray
One day you will tell me how to change what I cannot yet describe without my words swelling HUGE, vowels vanishing, tears washing ink away.
— Alasdair Gray
All power tends to coopt, and absolute power coopts absolutely.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
We are never more (and sometimes less) than the co-authors of our own narratives.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
She is the swelling sail, trim rigging and bust sunlit deck of our matrimonial yacht. I am the low hull, with the invisible ballast and keel.
— Alasdair Gray
I don't think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won't learn anything unless you enjoy it.
— Alasdair Gray
Morality which is no particular socity's morality is to be found nowhere.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
Tell me, Dr. Lanark, is there a connection between your love of vast panorama and your distate for human problems?
— Alasdair Gray
People who care nothing for their country's stories and songs,' he said, 'are like people without a past- without a memory- they are half people
— Alasdair Gray
The exercise of the virtues is itself a crucial component of the good life for man
— Alasdair MacIntyre
Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.
Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it. — Alasdair Gray
Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it. — Alasdair Gray
Moral judgments are linguistic survivals from the practices of classical theism which have lost the context provided by these practices.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
The body of the last Flealouse contained the flesh of everything that had ever lived. It was content.
— Alasdair Gray
Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention.
— Alasdair MacIntyre