Civilization Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.

— Camille Paglia

Cynics are all moralists, and merciless too.

— Indro Montanelli

I guess I am nostalgic for a time - the nineteenth century and early twentieth - when writers were, to use Stefan Collini's phrase,…

— Pankaj Mishra

In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The arrogance of the strong,…

— Georges Cuvier

Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern Buddhists, the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive and often downright domineering and violent.…

— Aldous Huxley

[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent.

— Mason Cooley

I shall not fear to say that the doctrine of self-interest rightly understood seems to me of all the philosophic theories the most appropriate…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

— Anonymous

We can safely say, therefore, that whereas some moralists may find it possible to make a distinction between two spheres and reigns-one of flesh,…

— Joseph Campbell

Many fledgling moralists in those days were going about our town proclaiming there was nothing to be done about it and we should bow…

— Albert Camus

We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter are voluntary,…

— Samuel Johnson