Moral fiber Quote by Anonymous

“Human beings, in their generous endeavour to construct a hypothesis that shall not degrade a First Cause, have always hesitated to conceive a dominant…

— Thomas Hardy

Among the innumerable mortifications which waylay human arrogance on every side may well be reckoned our ignorance of the most common objects and effects,…

— Samuel Johnson

“Logic and morality made it impossible to accept an illogical and immoral reality; they engendered a rejection of reality which as a rule led…

— Primo Levi

“They were evidently people on a low, material plane of existence, and quite incapable of appreciating the symbolic value of sensuous phenomena.”

— Oscar Wilde

“    The contrariety of human nature is a subject that has given a surprising amount of occupation to makers of proverbs and to those moral…

— R. Austin Freeman

“In our contemporary social and intellectual plight, it is nothing less than shocking to discover that those persons who claim to have discovered an…

— Karl Mannheim

“Of all difficulties which impede the progress of thought, and the formation of well-grounded opinions on life and social arrangements, the greatest is now…

— John Stuart Mill

“Sometimes I think the urge to believe in our own worldview is our most powerful intellectual imperative, the mind’s equivalent of feeding, fighting, and…

— Barry Eisler

“The moral of the story is this: It takes an ill-advised mix of ignorance, arrogance, and profit motive to dismiss the wisdom of the…

— Mary Roach

“Or society places a supreme value on control -- hiding what you feel. Our culture mocks "primitive cultures" and prides itself on supression of…

— Jim Morrison

“we are here confronted with an irreducible oddity about all human societies: all are strung around figments of the human imagination.”

— Patricia Crone

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun…

— Cyrano de Bergerac