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Diogenes … refuses to be taken in by complacent popular belief that we already know human goodness from our daily experience, or by confident professorial claims that we can capture the mystery of our humanity in definitions.

— Leon Kass Looking for an Honest Man (2009)

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To act nobly, a noble heart is not enough. It needs help from a sharp mind.

Looking for an Honest Man (2009)

Could technology, understood as the disposition and activity of mastery, turn out to be a stumbling block in the path of the master himself?

The Problem of Technology (1993)

Although not all flesh is forbidden, everything that is forbidden is flesh.

Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder.

I have come to believe that looking honestly for the human being, following the path wherever it leads, may itself be an integral part of finding it.

Looking for an Honest Man (2009)

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