Quote by Jon Krakauer Download Open image ““We were too tired to help. Above 8,000 meters is not a place where people can afford morality”” — Jon Krakauer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Morality can provide at most only a severely limited and insufficient answer to the question of how a person should live.” — Harry G. Frankfurt Copy Share Image
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“We still don't know how to put morality ahead of politics, science, and economics. We are still incapable of understanding that the only genuine… — Václav Havel Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, in certain parts of the world, help doesn’t come running.” — Stephen Nwaloziri Copy Share Image
“A distressingly large portion of the world doesn't do you any good whatsoever.” — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“Pure practical reason, even with a good knowledge of the facts, will not take you to morality.” — Kai Nielsen Copy Share Image
“This isn't about simple morality. Not anymore. The world is too big, and there are worlds in worlds. They were always there, in everyone's… — Brandon R. Chinn Copy Share Image
“People only Listen,Understand, Obey the Morality for a minute After that They do, what ever They want !” — Shibu Bera Copy Share Image
“Our statistics are at fault: the population has been returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand miles in this… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“How can we read when people need our help? It's a luxury. A stupid luxury.” — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“Climbing mattered. The danger bathed the world in a halogen glow that caused everything—the sweep of the rock, the orange and yellow lichens, the… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
He read a lot. He used a lot of big words. I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
But [Everett] and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That’s what was great about them. They tried. Not many do. — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“he was ready, perhaps, to shed a little of the armor he wore around his heart, that upon returning to civilization, he intended to… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“Continually question climbing pursuits. Do they draw one back to the climbing community? Or do they lead along the [inner-directed] path? This questioning generates… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“The boy unmasked the gaping void in Franz's life even as he helped fill it.” — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“Unlike Muir and Thoreau, McCandless went into the wilderness not primarily to ponder nature or the world at large but, rather, to explore the… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute. — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
I mean, how can you not be a feminist if you have a brain in your head? If you’re not a feminist, then you’re… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image