Roberto Unger

When we imagine our Universe to be just one out of a multitude of possible worlds we devalue this world, the one we see, the one we should be trying to explain. ↗

— Roberto Unger

#explain #imagine #just #just one #multitude

Brazil has no future as a China with fewer people. ↗

— Roberto Unger

#china #fewer #fewer people #future #people

I regard myself as a man without charm in a country of charmers. ↗

— Roberto Unger

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In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity. ↗

— Roberto Unger

#democracies #deserving #differences #different #form

In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction. ↗

— Roberto Unger

#direction #discrete #political #problems #solutions

The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset. ↗

— Roberto Unger

#explain #outset #riddles #scientist #should

The supreme good of life is vitality. And vitality is always seeping away. ↗

— Roberto Unger

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