Character Quote by Herman Bavinck

At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since.

— Betty Comden

“Thus the true, the good and the beautiful which ethical culture seeks can only come to perfection when the absolute good is at the…

— Herman Bavinck

Without "ethical culture", there is no salvation for humanity.

— Albert Einstein

I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly…

— Albert Einstein

The fear of speculation, the ostensible rush from the theoretical to the practical, brings about the same shallowness in action that it does in…

— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

It's silly to have as one's sole object in life just making money, accumulating wealth. I work because I enjoy what I'm doing, and…

— Johnny Carson

Of course, corporations and governments have a right to something for their money. They pay the wages. But they don't have the ethical right…

— John Ralston Saul

I'm a fan of Hugh Kenner, Richard Ellman, Lionel Trilling and Frank Kermode. All these people have taught me how to read - but…

— Philip Kitcher

Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It is possible to believe in progress as a fact without believing in progress as an ethical principle; but in the catechism of many…

— Norbert Wiener

Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male…

— G. Stanley Hall

What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess.

— Anonymous

Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relevance is just as important. I often say, 'If…

— Yves Behar

My hope is that if people have the knowledge, and if they actually see where their food comes from and have access to the…

— Michael Pollan

The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of…

— Carl Schmitt