Robert C. Solomon Quotes

Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities.

There has been talk in Europe about American hegemony being somehow based upon the use of the dollar in the world. I just don't see that connection at all.

Building trust means thinking about trust in a positive way.

Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.

Building trust begins with an appreciation and understanding of trust, but it also requires practice and practices.

Some countries that are close to Europe that already hold Deutschemarks, clearly would automatically hold euros, those are countries in Eastern Europe mainly, a few countries in Africa.

There's a stability and growth pact which was agreed for the eleven countries which tries to limit the size of budget deficits among the eleven countries.

Trust is almost always conditional, focused, qualified, and therefore limited.

Thus when I have to summarize naturalized spirituality in a single phrase, it is this: the thoughtful love of life.

Trust is a skill learned over time so that, like a well-trained athlete, one makes the right moves, usually without much reflection.

All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal.

Love can be understood only "from the inside," as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.

Trust is built step by step, commitment by commitment, on every level.

Many people are blind to trust, not so much to its benefits as to its nature and the practices that make it possible.

Indeed, some kitsch seems to be flawed by its very perfection, its technical virtuosity and its precise execution, its explicit knowledge of the tradition

The United States as usual has a sizable deficit in the current account of its balance of payments, trade account and other current accounts, current account items.

There is a European Central Bank, of course, established and it has the structure similar to the Federal Reserve system, not precisely the same but similar.

Chances are the movements of the euro as against the dollar will be relatively moderate.

So if the euro, if Euroland is to become a reserve center, if the euro is to become a reserve currency, Euroland will have to have a deficit in its overall balance of payments.

Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today in movements of reserves among countries.

True, trust necessarily carries with it uncertainties, but we must force ourselves to think about these uncertainties as possibilities and opportunities, not as liabilities.

Trust and the ability to identify trustworthiness are not the same thing, although trust and trustworthiness are logically linked.

The prices of all imports would rise if the dollar depreciates.

The dollar is currently the principal reserve currency in the world.

The trumped-up charges against kitsch and sentimentality should disturb us and make us suspicious.

Familiarity can no longer be a necessary condition for trust.

High kitsch, whatever else may be said of it, cannot be openly dismissed as cheap.

In the United States, securities markets are much more developed than they are in Europe.

Another question has been raised rather widely in Europe, in Japan as well as in the United States is what, to what extent will the euro become a reserve currency.

Trust is a skill, one that is an aspect of virtually all human practices, cultures, and relationships.

If a currency is to become a growing, an increasing reserve currency, there has to be not only a demand for it there has to be a supply of it.

We also confuse trust with familiarity.

The brain can be seen as a complex machine, like a gooey computer.

Love can be understood only "from the inside " as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.