Mark Lilla Quotes

• This is an accessible work of philosophy in the best sense, sharply focused on matters of vital human concern and free of the domain tics that mar even allegedly popular works by Anglo-American philosophers.

  Mark Lilla

  Philosophy, Mars, Matter

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• Nadie puede saber durante cuánto tiempo persistirá este embrutecimiento de la religión estadounidense. Pero mientras dure, los ciudadanos deberían estar más atentos a la vigilancia de la plaza pública, no menos. . . . [No se puede sostener una democracia liberal sin cultivar hábitos liberales entre los creyentes religiosos. Esto sigue siendo cierto hoy en día, tanto en Bagdad como en Baton Rouge.

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  Religious, Squares, Long

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• Writing recently in the New York Times, David Brooks noted correctly if belatedly that conservatives disdain for liberal intellectuals had slipped into disdain for the educated class as a whole, and worried that the Republican Party was alienating educated voters. I couldn't care less about the future of the Republican Party, but I do care about the quality of political thinking and judgment in the country as a whole.

  Mark Lilla

  Country, New York, Fiesta

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• There was a time when conservative intellectuals raised the level of American public debate and helped to keep it sober. Those days are gone. As for political judgment, the promotion of Sarah Palin as a possible world leader speaks for itself. The Republican Party and the political right will survive, but the conservative intellectual tradition is already dead. And all of us, even liberals like myself, are poorer for it.

  Mark Lilla

  Party, Leader, Political

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• Whoever takes it upon himself to write an honest intellectual history of twentieth-century Europe will need a strong stomach. But he will need something more. He will need to overcome his disgust long enough to ponder the roots of this strange and puzzling phenomenon.

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  Strong, Writing, Europe

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