What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is… — Hans Morgenthau Copy Share Image
“Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Where do you put a form? It will move all around, bellow out and shrink, and sometimes it winds up where it… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
If I am against the condition of the world, it is not because I am a moralist - it is because I… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
One has said that Christ excelled all other moralists in this, that He puts the padlock not upon the hand, but upon… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events. — Georges Lefebvre Copy Share Image
[Albert Camus] was viewed by many as an austere moralist, but it was on the football pitch and in the theatre that… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
If you want to move beyond hive-docility, you must become God the Moralist. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
If morality had naturally no influence on human passions and actions, it were in vain to take such pains to inculcate it;… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Science is turning into a monastery for the Order of Capitulant Friars. Logical calculus is supposed to supersede man as moralist. We… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance. — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Formerly, leaders of states practiced realism, but did not honor it. With them morality was violated, but moral notions remained intact. The… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The worst mockery God can make of a moralist is that He compels him to be a solipsist.” — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
It is one thing to decry the rat race...that is the good and honorable work of moralists. It is quite another thing… — Paul Gruchow Copy Share Image
I ask the political economists and the moralists if they have ever calculated the number of individuals who must be condemned to… — Almeida Garrett Copy Share Image
If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image