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"Your moral foundation and character currently depend on what you hear."
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"To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: to throw away the happiness of thousands for the chance of the happiness of one: that would be to let guilt within the walls indeed."
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Personal Development
"Morality exists in the neurons as a natural sensation. Religion only tries to codify it."
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Personal Development
"Life wants you to know that feelings are more important than facts, and you should never hurt someone just to be right."
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Personal Development
"Sometimes it is better to say 'no' and lose your job than it is to say 'yes' and lose your soul."
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Personal Development
"Ethics are the things that say, 'Don't stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It's okay because we've shut off the electricity.' And at the point that we've chosen to listen to the world and ignore our ethics, we say, 'I'm having a really hard time getting back up."
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Personal Development
"People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty."
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Personal Development
"You can know something is a lie when it has no love in it."
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Personal Development
"I was brought up to be honest; the trouble is it gets me nowhere." Liking her better, he smiled and said, "It'll get us to heaven." "Will it?" "If heaven existed." "Do you not believe in heaven, Mr. Fielding, may I ask?" she said, looking at him shyly. "I do not. Yet I believe that honesty gets us there."
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"Why is it that human beings are allowed to grow up without the necessary apparatus to make sound ethical decisions?"
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"The saddest thing is that every love has an unhappy ending, and all the more unhappy in proportion to how divinely it began, with what wings it first took flight."
Romance
"The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find."
Life
"There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness."
Happiness
"Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter."
Religion
"Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place."
Man
"We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose."
Work
"Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?"
Nature
"Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable."
Art
"As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life."
Life
"It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely."
Philosophy
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