"Though everything is identical with itself, only I am me."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Derek Parfit, āIs Personal Identity What Matters?ā, The Ammonius Foundation, p. 25
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Derek_Parfit
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Derek Parfit
Derek Parfit (11 December 1942 ā 1 January 2017) was a British philosopher who specialised in problems of personal identity, rationality, ethics, and the relations among them.
32 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Derek Parfit ā
Related Quotes
"One thing that greatly matters is the failure of we rich people to prevent, as we so easily could, much of the sufferā¦"
"What now matters most is that we rich people give up some of our luxuries, ceasing to overheat the Earth's atmosphereā¦"
"Until this century, most of mankind lived in small communities. What each did could affect only a few others. But conā¦"
"We are paternalists when we make someone act in his own interests."
"Venetian Memories. Jane has agreed to have copied in her brain some of Paulās memory-traces. After she recovers conscā¦"
"Strawson describes two kinds of philosophy, descriptive, and revisionary. Descriptive philosophy gives reasons for whā¦"
"On all plausible theories, everyoneās well-being consists at least in part in being happy, and avoiding suffering."
"Certain actual sleeping pills cause retrograde amnesia. It can be true that, if I take such a pill, I shall remain awā¦"
"Nagel once claimed that it is psychologically impossible to believe the Reductionist View. Buddha claimed that, thougā¦"
"It has been widely believed that there are such deep disagreements between Kantians, Contractualists, and Consequentiā¦"