“Socrates repeatedly emphasized the point that moral knowledge is not mere acquisition of information but personal change. To know the good is… — Steven B. Cowan Copy Share Image
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. Whether as a general… — George Boole Copy Share Image
I've had the philosophy that John Adams expressed, in the kind of system that we're trying to create in this country: that… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
If you want to save capitalism there is only one type of argument that you should adopt, the only one that has… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
For perpetrators, when they apologize and experience remorse, it gives them a chance to reclaim their own humanity. Some rise to the… — Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela Copy Share Image
When was in prison I admired him for his moral strength... Of his period in power I can see few results. Apartheid… — Mengistu Haile Mariam Copy Share Image
I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
Recreation in the open is of the finest grade. The moral benefits are all positive. The individual with any soul cannot live… — Arthur Carhart Copy Share Image
At the heart of our public morality is the idea that he who gives generously is most virtuous and morally praiseworthy; that… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
Above all, creators remain drawn to the age-old paradoxes that philosophy grapples with [and]...that art occasionally resolves...the problem of the one and… — Frank Barron Copy Share Image
When people want to inspire you to turn against some group of people, they'll often use empathy. When Obama wanted to bomb… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say,… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I think we're a little bit protective in that way. You're always trying to balance between what's spreading the word about the… — Yukimi Nagano Copy Share Image
Anybody hear the great news, today? Jimmy Swaggart under investigation! Oh Ja-eezus! One day every one of those cocksuckers will get caught!… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Let me make it quite clear that when Christians say the Christ-life is in them, they do not mean simply something mental… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
No culture in history has ever embraced moral relativism and survived. Our own culture, therefore, will either (1) be the first, and… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
I cannot here avoid giving my most decided sufferage in favour of the moral qualities of maniacs. I have no where met,… — Philippe Pinel Copy Share Image
I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference,… — Sallust Copy Share Image
The young of human beings compare so poorly in original efficiency with the young of many of the lower animals, that even… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Material advancement has its share in moral and intellectual progress. Becky Sharp's acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I did it for political, moral reasons, thinking that I was making this great sacrifice, but it was absolutely necessary; I was… — Alicia Silverstone Copy Share Image
A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of… — Wilhelm Frick Copy Share Image
Drunkenness is not only the cause of crime, but it is crime; and if any encourage drunkenness for the sake of the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Beethoven was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was not interested in daily politics, but concerned… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
Do we call this the land of the free? What is it to be free from King George the Fourth and continue… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The compass of compassion asks not what is good for me? but what is good? Not what is best for me but… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm really hopeful about the future of space exploration and human spaceflight. Civilization as we know it has been defined by exploration.… — Alan G. Poindexter Copy Share Image
Every one on this earth should believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that his life and temperament have some object on… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When I today ask myself whence I got the moral courage, for it takes moral courage to make a move (or form… — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
(A manager) once confided in me she liked to picture in her mind's eye that every employee was wearing one of those… — James Hunter Copy Share Image
The depth and strength of our character is defined by our moral code. People only reveal themselves when they're thrown out of… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
What is central to morality is rational self-constraint (acting from duty), in cease where there is no other incentive to do your… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The American people need to know that there are folks here fighting as hard as they can for individual liberty, economic freedom,… — Tom Price Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton was personally presiding over the dissolution of moral authority - particularly applied to presidents - because she looked the other… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Men and women who refuse to acknowledge God's existence do so, in the final analysis, because it is contrary to their manner… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
We are born with a potential for good character - and for the dispositions and habits that make up bad or weak… — Edwin J Delattre Copy Share Image
![“Above all, creators remain drawn to the age-old paradoxes that philosophy grapples with [and]...that art occasionally resolves...the problem of the one and the many; unity and variety; determinism and freedom; mechanism and vitalism; good and evil; time and eternity; the plenum and the void; moral…” quote by Frank Barron](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c44/frank-barron-42375_absolutism_above-all-creators-remain-drawn-to-the-a_1821578.jpg)
