5 Quotes by David Edmonds

Most people seem to believe that not only is it permissible to turn the train down the spur, it is actually required – morally obligatory.

When you play Bobby, it is not a question of whether you win or lose. It is a question of whether you survive. – BORIS SPASSKY.

Bentham maintained that what mattered about an action was how much pleasure it produced and how much pain was avoided. He enjoined us always to act so as to maximize pleasure and minimize pain.

Would you rather have people be helpful or not? It turns out that having little nice things happen to them is a much better way of making them helpful than spending a huge amount of energy on improving their characters.”5.

I think that success in life is largely a matter of luck. It has little correlation with merit, and in all fields of life there have been many people of great merit who did not succeed – Popper.