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Ethics Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity…
- Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.
- I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.
- Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.
- Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress,…
- No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
- Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.
- I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber…
- Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
- The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
- Duty is what one expects from others.
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