"Morality without a sense of paradox is mean."

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"Morality without a sense of paradox is mean."

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"The malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Morality, Malice, Benevolence, Reality, Imagination

"We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own."

Jonathan Safran Foer, American Novelist

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"The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"One man thinks justice consists in paying debts, and has no measure in his abhorrence of another who is very remiss in this duty and makes the creditor wait tediously. But that second man has his own way of looking at things; asks himself Which debt must I pay first, the debt to the rich, or the debt to the poor? the debt of money or the debt of thought to mankind, of genius to nature? For you, O broker, there is not other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"There are sins much more serious than socio-pathologies which really are mental illnesses, whereas self-righteousness is an illness of the soul."

R. Alan Woods, American Author

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"Violence is not the answer. Terrorism is the most dangerous of answers."

Elie Wiesel, American Novelist

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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."

Pat Robertson, American Clergyman

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"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."

George Orwell, British Author

Morality, Humanity, Behavior, Limit

"The world won't be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

Morality, Evil, Action, Responsibility, Inaction

"The monks used to say that he was more drawn to those who were more sinful, and the greater the sinner the more he loved him."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

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"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."

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"The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history."

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"Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime."

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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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"Virtue is reason which has become energy."

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"One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one."

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