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Annette Baier Quotes on Love

Annette Claire Baier was a New Zealand-born moral philosopher and one of the most distinctive analytic voices in late twentieth-century ethics. This page collects quotes attributed to Annette Baier on the topic of love, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Annette Baier:

    “Trust is more like the air we breathe than a thing we choose.”

  • Attributed to Annette Baier:

    “The ethics of trust is more fundamental than the ethics of justice.”

  • Attributed to Annette Baier:

    “We can only learn what trust is by being entrusted, and by trusting in turn.”

  • Attributed to Annette Baier:

    “Moral life is mostly carried on in the second person.”