The primitive sign of wanting is trying to get.

- G. E. M. Anscombe

...once the cards are dealt we turn them up in turn, and make two piles each, one red, one black; the winner has the biggest pile of red ones. So onc…

- G. E. M. Anscombe

Christianity taught that men ought to be as chaste as pagans thought honest women ought to be; the contraceptive morality teaches that women need to …

- G. E. M. Anscombe

An intentional object is given by a word or a phrase which gives a description under which.

- G. E. M. Anscombe

The denial of any distinction between foreseen and intended consequences, as far as responsibility is concerned, was not made by Sidgwick in developi…

- G. E. M. Anscombe

Those who try to make room for sex as mere casual enjoyment pay the penalty: they become shallow. At any rate the talk that reflects and commends thi…

- G. E. M. Anscombe