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Top 20 Kwame Anthony Appiah Quotes (2025 Update)

Kwame Anthony Appiah Quote: “In life, the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you’re playing.”

1. “In life, the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you’re playing.”

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

Kwame Anthony Appiah Quote: “Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto. I am human, I think nothing human alien to me.”

2. “Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto. I am human, I think nothing human alien to me.”

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Kwame Anthony Appiah Quote: “Conversation doesn’t have to lead to consensus about anything especially not values; it’s enough that it helps people get used to one another.”

3. “Conversation doesn’t have to lead to consensus about anything especially not values; it’s enough that it helps people get used to one another.”

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Kwame Anthony Appiah Quote: “I started philosophy looking for answers. But along the way I came to prize exploring the questions. Progress in philosophy consists, I think, in a clearer delineation of the conceptual options, not in reaching determinate conclusions.”

4. “I started philosophy looking for answers. But along the way I came to prize exploring the questions. Progress in philosophy consists, I think, in a clearer delineation of the conceptual options, not in reaching determinate conclusions.”

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

Kwame Anthony Appiah Quote: “We do not need to find something we are best at; what is important is simply that we do our best.”

5. “We do not need to find something we are best at; what is important is simply that we do our best.”

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

Kwame Anthony Appiah Quote: “To create a life is to create a life out of the materials that history has given you.”

6. “To create a life is to create a life out of the materials that history has given you.”

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Kwame Anthony Appiah Quote: “If someone hates you, they won’t ask you for things.”

7. “If someone hates you, they won’t ask you for things.”

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Kwame Anthony Appiah Quote: “A value is like a fax machine: it’s not much use if you’re the only one who has one.”

8. “A value is like a fax machine: it’s not much use if you’re the only one who has one.”

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Kwame Anthony Appiah Quote: “Without reflection, without sorrow, without shame, they’ve built around me great, high walls. And I sit here now and despair. I think of nothing else: this fate consumes my mind: because I had so many things to do out there.3.”

9. “Without reflection, without sorrow, without shame, they’ve built around me great, high walls. And I sit here now and despair. I think of nothing else: this fate consumes my mind: because I had so many things to do out there.3.”

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Kwame Anthony Appiah Quote: “The phrase ‘academic freedom’ is often used carelessly: here is a work that will allow a more careful conversation about those many crucial issues facing the academy, in which a well-worked out understanding of conceptions of academic freedom is, as its authors show, an essential tool.”

10. “The phrase ‘academic freedom’ is often used carelessly: here is a work that will allow a more careful conversation about those many crucial issues facing the academy, in which a well-worked out understanding of conceptions of academic freedom is, as its authors show, an essential tool.”

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

Kwame Anthony Appiah Quote: “I am urging that we should learn about people in other places, take an interest in their civilizations, their arguments, their errors, their achievements, not because that will bring us to agreement, but because it will help us get used to one another.”

11. “I am urging that we should learn about people in other places, take an interest in their civilizations, their arguments, their errors, their achievements, not because that will bring us to agreement, but because it will help us get used to one another.”

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Kwame Anthony Appiah Quote: “I am not alone is doubting the imperative to respect cultures, as opposed to persons; and I believe we can respect persons only inasmuch as we consider them as abstract rights-holders.”

12. “I am not alone is doubting the imperative to respect cultures, as opposed to persons; and I believe we can respect persons only inasmuch as we consider them as abstract rights-holders.”

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Kwame Anthony Appiah Quote: “The challenge, then, is to take minds and hearts formed over the long millennia of living in local troops and equip them with ideas and institutions that will allow us to live together as the global tribe we have become.”

13. “The challenge, then, is to take minds and hearts formed over the long millennia of living in local troops and equip them with ideas and institutions that will allow us to live together as the global tribe we have become.”

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

Kwame Anthony Appiah Quote: “In the world of identity, utterances have functions, separate from their meanings.”

14. “In the world of identity, utterances have functions, separate from their meanings.”

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Kwame Anthony Appiah Quote: “All Faith is false, all Faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strown In myriad bits; while each believes His little bit the whole to own.”

15. “All Faith is false, all Faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strown In myriad bits; while each believes His little bit the whole to own.”

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Kwame Anthony Appiah Quote: “Once you start offering reasons for ignoring the interests of others, however, reasoning itself will usually draw you into a kind of universality. A reason is an offer of a ground for thinking or feeling or doing something. And it isn’t a ground for me, unless it’s a ground for you. If someone really thinks that some group of people genuinely doesn’t matter at all, he will suppose they are outside the circle of those to whom justifications are due.”

16. “Once you start offering reasons for ignoring the interests of others, however, reasoning itself will usually draw you into a kind of universality. A reason is an offer of a ground for thinking or feeling or doing something. And it isn’t a ground for me, unless it’s a ground for you. If someone really thinks that some group of people genuinely doesn’t matter at all, he will suppose they are outside the circle of those to whom justifications are due.”

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Kwame Anthony Appiah Quote: “Possibly, there was something to be said for the intellectual discipline of second-guessing what you thought was true.”

17. “Possibly, there was something to be said for the intellectual discipline of second-guessing what you thought was true.”

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Kwame Anthony Appiah Quote: “The most reliable predictor of whether students liked a course, it turned out, was their answer to the question ’’Did the professor respect you?”

18. “The most reliable predictor of whether students liked a course, it turned out, was their answer to the question ’’Did the professor respect you?”

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Kwame Anthony Appiah Quote: “And though upper-class status doesn’t always entail having money, it does entail some social proximity to money. Real poverty, it has been observed, is about social isolation as much as it is about material deprivation; the poor don’t have the sort of friendship networks that the advantaged draw upon.29 That’s why we may balk at calling a penniless graduate student “poor.” Class is one way that you benefit from the money in the pockets of friends and acquaintances.”

19. “And though upper-class status doesn’t always entail having money, it does entail some social proximity to money. Real poverty, it has been observed, is about social isolation as much as it is about material deprivation; the poor don’t have the sort of friendship networks that the advantaged draw upon.29 That’s why we may balk at calling a penniless graduate student “poor.” Class is one way that you benefit from the money in the pockets of friends and acquaintances.”

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Kwame Anthony Appiah Quote: “This view is an instance of what my friend Skip Gates has called “cultural geneticism,“80 It has, in Bertrand Russell’s wicked phrase, “the virtues of theft over honest toil.” On this view, you earn rights to culture that is marked with the mark of your race – or your nation – simply by having a racial identity.”

20. “This view is an instance of what my friend Skip Gates has called “cultural geneticism,“80 It has, in Bertrand Russell’s wicked phrase, “the virtues of theft over honest toil.” On this view, you earn rights to culture that is marked with the mark of your race – or your nation – simply by having a racial identity.”

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Kwame Anthony Appiah Quote: “Morality, on the other hand, as Immanuel Kant insisted, is ultimately practical: though it matters morally what we think and feel, morality is, at its heart, about what we do.”

21. “Morality, on the other hand, as Immanuel Kant insisted, is ultimately practical: though it matters morally what we think and feel, morality is, at its heart, about what we do.”

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Kwame Anthony Appiah Quote: “Self-regarding considerations can be as universalizable as other-regarding considerations: we owe things to ourselves as well to others.”

22. “Self-regarding considerations can be as universalizable as other-regarding considerations: we owe things to ourselves as well to others.”

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Kwame Anthony Appiah Quote: “Identities can be held together by narratives, in short, without essences: you don’t get to be called “English” because there’s an essence this label follows; you’re English because our rules determine that you are entitled to the label – that you are connected in the right way with a place called England.”

23. “Identities can be held together by narratives, in short, without essences: you don’t get to be called “English” because there’s an essence this label follows; you’re English because our rules determine that you are entitled to the label – that you are connected in the right way with a place called England.”

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Kwame Anthony Appiah Quote: “More recently, the intellectual historian Gertrude Himmelfarb has maintained that justice, reason, and the love of humanity “are, in fact, predominantly, perhaps even uniquely, Western values.”19.”

24. “More recently, the intellectual historian Gertrude Himmelfarb has maintained that justice, reason, and the love of humanity “are, in fact, predominantly, perhaps even uniquely, Western values.”19.”

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

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