64 Quotes by Robert C. Solomon

So you can be pretty sure that central banks around the world will not start dumping dollars on the market in order to buy euros.

The dollar performs internationally all three functions of money, as a medium of exchange, a unit of account and a standard of value.

The dollar is the main private currency for investment purposes, for transactions purposes, as a vehicle currency as it's called.

The brain can be seen as a complex machine, like a gooey computer.

High-class kitsch may well be "perfect" in its form and and composition: the academic painters were often masters of their craft. Thus, the accusation that a work of kitsch is based not on lack of for or aesthetic merit but on the presence of a particularly provocative emotional content. (The best art, by contrast, eschews emotional content altogether.)

High kitsch, whatever else may be said of it, cannot be openly dismissed as cheap.

Indeed, some kitsch seems to be flawed by its very perfection, its technical virtuosity and its precise execution, its explicit knowledge of the tradition

The trumped-up charges against kitsch and sentimentality should disturb us and make us suspicious.

Trust and the ability to identify trustworthiness are not the same thing, although trust and trustworthiness are logically linked.