CAFÉ PHILOSOPHY is participatory public philosophy in Victoria, BC, Canada. These weekly dialogues went on for over 12 years, and more than over 500 sessions.
CAFÉ PHILOSOPHY ended July 15, 2009. Author and moderator, Michael Picard, is taking up a new position teaching philosophy at Douglas College in Vancouver. For more details, and for future updates, see the News box below.
Thanks for the memories. So long, Victoria.
Follow the argument where ever it leads!
To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
~ Mark Twain
Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let be free and unashamed.
~ William Saroyan
The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
~ Dalai Lama
Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own good.
~ Pablo Casals
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't.
~ Oscar Wilde
Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts.
~ Tibetan Proverb
Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm, or to hinder life is evil. Affirmation of the world -- that is affirmation of the will to live, which appears in phenomenal forms all around me -- is only possible for me in that I give myself out for other life.
~ Albert Schweitzer
