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“ Leibniz combines Aristotelian teleology in the notion that the nature of a thing provides for its unfolding in a certain fashion with the modern idea that the nature of a thing is within it. Because the forms are internal in the way that they are not with Aristotle, the harmony of the world has to be pre-established by God. ”

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What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a single principle, whether that of planning under the general will or that of free-market allocations.

~ Charles Taylor

There is a widespread sense of loss here, if not always of God, then at least of meaning.

~ Charles Taylor

We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us. Even after we outgrow some of these others—our parents, for instance—and they disappear from our lives, the conversation with them continues within us as long as we live.

~ Charles Taylor

[E]ach of our voices has something unique to say. Not only should I not mold my life to the demands of external conformity, I can't even find the model by which to live outside myself. I can only find it within.

~ Charles Taylor