I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
To amend mankind, moralists should show them man, not as he is, but as he ought to be. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life. — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent. — Mason Cooley 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
When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One man who minds his own business is more valuable to the world than 10,000 cocksure moralists.” — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Those who still eat flesh when they could do otherwise have no claim to be serious moralists. — Stephen R. L. Clark Copy Share Image
“Thus, all sane moralists admit that one may sometimes tell a lie; but no sane moralist would approve of telling a little… — G.K. Chesterton 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
It is always the moralists who do the most harm. Abortion is the logical outcome of civilization, only the jungle gives birth… — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The arrogance of… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The biggest difference between Jesus Christ and ethical and moral teachers who have been deified by man. Is that these moralists came… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
“Happiness and goodness, according to canting moralists, stand in the relation of effect and cause. There was never anything less proved or… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I shall not fear to say that the doctrine of self-interest rightly understood seems to me of all the philosophic theories the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Many fledgling moralists in those days were going about our town proclaiming there was nothing to be done about it and we… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“It follows that the one thing we should not do to the men and women of past time, and particularly if they… — Lauro Martines Copy Share Image
I guess I am nostalgic for a time - the nineteenth century and early twentieth - when writers were, to use Stefan… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern Buddhists, the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive and often downright domineering… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“At no time have governments been moralists. They never imprisoned people and executed them for having done something. They imprisoned and executed… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
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
“When a job is undertaken from necessity, or from a grim sense of disagreeable duty, the worker is self-consciously aware of the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“The principle of equality sums up the teachings of moralists. But it also contains something more. This something more is respect for… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“My unlucky star had destined me to be born when there was much talk about morality and, at the same time, more… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell. —Bertrand Russell” — Oliver Benjamin Copy Share Image
For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy — Bertrand Russell 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
The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“Nor could she help feeling, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Early moralists who believed that taking too much pleasure at the table led inexorably to bad character-or worse, to sex-were (in the… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
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