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Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you read more
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would read more
If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "no" to war. For one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.
We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.
We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.
The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age read more
The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that read more
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.
Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.
We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice, and read more
We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.
