Explicit Quote by Daniel J. Boorstin Download Open image “Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.” — Daniel J. Boorstin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Explicit Models Moral Persuasive Vivid
Humans have more moral responsibility perhaps, because they are capable of reasoning. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think we're already getting to a stage where the basic artificial intelligences are discovering moral systems. I think, in many ways, moral systems… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of. — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The quality of moral behaviour varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We are now returning to the 18th century empirical approach with the new interest in the evolutionary basis of ethics, with 'experimental' moral philosophy… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
“moral forecasting—how effective we are at predicting how morally we will act in a given situation.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives- from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichacestenango -… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Each living art object, taken out of its native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in a zoo.… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Probably no one of us has the True Religion. But all of us together - if we are allowed to be free - are… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement through space… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The computer can help us find what we know is there. But the book remains our symbol and our resource for the unimagined question… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
In fast-moving, progress-conscious America, the consumer expects to be dizzied by progress. If he could completely understand advertising jargon he would be badly disappointed.… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Being known primarily for their well-knownness, celebrities intensify their celebrity images simply by becoming widely known for relations among themselves. By a kind of… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent. — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I am comfortable talking about sex scenes and stuff, but to me, when it's physically explicit, I do feel prudish and uncomfortable. — Phoebe Waller-Bridge Copy Share Image
Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit… — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
For me, one of the most disturbing elements of the right wing's political agenda is that it believes that there is one correct spiritual… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Look at Mann's reading habits, his explicit comments on Nietzsche, and his copy of Birth of Tragedy, and it starts to seem doubtful that… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Perhaps the choice is a negative one, in that I was trying to avoid everything that touched on well-known issues - or any issues… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
It is the first time since 1993 that Russians have come out into the streets without an explicit permission from the government to do… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit. — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
Philosophy attempts, not to discover new truths about the world, but to gain a clear view of what we already know and believe about… — Michael Dummett Copy Share Image