Morality Quote by Joshua Loth Liebman Download Open image ““A world that is intellectually mature but morally infantile is on the road to ruin.”” — Joshua Loth Liebman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Morality
“The world as first seen by the child becomes his lifelong standard of excellence, mindless of the fact he is admiring the ruins of… — William Stolzenburg Copy Share Image
“We live as emotional transients in a world of isolation. Oh, if I could only borrow back so many wasted moments, but only the… — Craig Froman Copy Share Image
“In a desperate attempt to stay young forever we have achieved eternal childishness, rather than eternal youth.” — Daniel Prokop Copy Share Image
“If there is one thing I've learned in more than seven decades of life, it's that the world is a completely fucked-up place. You… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
“It is never easy being the one who takes the first step. But if we want things to mature in our life, we must… — M.W. Moore Copy Share Image
“So long as our parents are alive, we are children. Then we become childish.” — Ljupka Cvetanova Copy Share Image
“the English novel is childish because what is desired is not maturity and wisdom but a return to the safety and innocence of childhood—” — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“That baby sees the world with completeness that you and I will never know again. His doors of perception have not yet been closed.… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“...we pretend to be grown up and responsible; we are so proud and self-assured--and look at the result. The world lies in bomb dust… — Alfred Delp Copy Share Image
“Many people are miserable because they think that occasional destructive feelings necessarily make them terrible persons. But just as Aristotle maintained, “One swallow does… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
“There comes a time in the development of every ego when it must love its neighbors or become a twisted and stunted personality.” — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
“The great mistake of contemporary life is that we have made such a virtue of intellectual growth while almost totally ignoring the necessity of… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
“Certainly it is true that we need to maintain independence in certain areas of life. We must not be passive but active agents in… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
“How easily we accept the fact that this is a varied world, with many races, cultures, and mores. In America we rejoice in this… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
“We are afraid of what we will do to others, afraid of the rage that lies in wait somewhere deep in our souls. How… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
“Most of us would like to see our enemies defeated and punished, and it is an ironic (and gruesome) human truth that many of… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
“A love of neighbor manifests itself in the tolerance not only of opinions of others but, what is more important, of the essence and… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
“And they lived happily ever after” is one of the most tragic sentences in literature. It is tragic because it tells a falsehood about… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
“Tolerance, which is one form of love of neighbor, must manifest itself not only in our personal relations, but also in the arena of… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
“There has been among us, particularly in America, an adolescent competitiveness—a feeling that life is a race in which the victory of one must… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
“Religion must now recognize that our deep antisocial impulses when denied and repressed do not disappear miraculously from reality; the more we treat them… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we… — William James Copy Share Image
“You do not need commandments to tell you what is right and wrong, you need reason. YOU NEED TO THINK. What are the consequences… — Kassandra Dick Copy Share Image
Humans suffer from self-centred notions as to the nature of life. Humans assume that alien life forms should conform to standards that match our… — Steve Perry Copy Share Image