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"There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena."
"Good and bad are illusions. What exists is either the presence of empathy or the lack of it. I think this should become the new, clear definition of how we see people. No more "good" and no more "bad". Those terms are highly subjective."
"Respect the hand stronger than your hand if and only if that hand is just and an honourable hand!"
"On the matters where your country is wrong, don't take side with your country! Because it is always wrong to be on the side of wrong!"
"Mrs. Joe war eine sehr reinliche Hausfrau, doch sie verstand sich ausnehmend gut darauf, ihre Reinlichkeit bequemer und unertrA¤glicher zu machen, als jeder Schmutz gewesen wA¤re. Die Reinlichkeit ist der Gottesfurcht verwandt, und manche verfahren mit ihrer Religion ganz genauso."
"My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."
"You may judge others only according to your knowledge of yourself."
Explore more quotes by Gustave Flaubert
"Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution."
"The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him."
"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."
"Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature."
"The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest."
"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."
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