“Liberalism, at its core, is not so much a doctrine as a disposition, a habit of mind, and it’s compounded of two principal elements: An abhorrence of cruelty and a sense of the provisional nature of human knowledge.” - Kwame Anthony Appiah”

— The First Liberal: How Montaigne made us modern.

(Source: Slate)

12:26 pm  •  30 April 2011  •  2 notes