Julian Barnes Quotes About Decisions

Quotes about: Decisions

• He had a better mind and a more rigorous temperament than me; he thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of logical thought. Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it. And call the result common sense.

  Julian Barnes

  Opposites, Common Sense, Decision

• ...life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it; that the thinking person has a philosophical duty to examine both the nature of life and the conditions it comes with; and that if this person decides to renounce the gift no one asks for, it is the moral and human duty to act on the consequences of that decision.

  Julian Barnes

  Philosophical, Thinking, Decision

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.48, Random House

• Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.

  Julian Barnes

  Giving, Decision, Enough Time

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.93, Random House

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