"To keep the Golden Rule we must put……" — Harry Emerson Fosdick
"To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places."
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91 Quotes by Harry Emerson Fosdick
Harry Emerson Fosdick has 91 quotes on this site.
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The first question to be answered by any individual or any social group, facing a hazardous situation, is whether the…
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No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.
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I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses...
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The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
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Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may…
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No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
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The more we know about this universe, the more mysterious it is. The old world that Job knew was marvelous…
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We must take the abiding spiritual values which inhere in the deep experiences of religion in all ages and give…
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Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans…
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...while science gives us implements to use, science alone does not determine for what ends they will be employed. Radio…
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Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: "Not…
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Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation…
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
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Reality simply consists of different points of view.
— Margaret Atwood
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
— Saint Augustine
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Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
— Henry Adams
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The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
— John Adams
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The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
— Konrad Adenauer
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other.…
— Mortimer Adler
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Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself,…
— Annie Besant
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Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.
— Theodor Adorno
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