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"Morality without a sense of paradox is mean."
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"The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality."
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"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."
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"There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena."
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"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."
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"Respect the hand stronger than your hand if and only if that hand is just and an honourable hand!"
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"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."
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"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."
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"You may judge others only according to your knowledge of yourself."
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"Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk."
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"The humble sinner will sometimes be interpreted as one of the filthiest in the eyes of man yet immersed in the eyes of God, and this is due to the volition of honesty regarding his own corruption."
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"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."
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"What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men."
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"Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin."
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"Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos."
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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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"The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion."
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"Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth."
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"Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself."
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"All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be."
Men

"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."
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