Naum Gabo Quotes

I consider morals and aesthetics one and the same, for they cover only one impulse, one drive inherent in our consciousness – to bring our life and all our actions into a satisfactory relationship with the events of the world as our consciousness wants it to be, in harmony with our life and according to the laws of consciousness itself.

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• I don't necessarily set out to teach or say anything in particular in my writing. Morals and themes come out as I'm telling the tale.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Writing
  • Teach
  • Morals

• Survival," I said softly. "It's selfish, and it's dark, and we've always been a species willing to do anything to satisfy our needs. Individuals have morals. Mobs have appetites.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Dark
  • Survival
  • Selfish

• Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Possession

• When the sun comes up, I have morals again.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Up
  • Sun
  • Morals

• Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Women
  • Mind

• Whatever may be the pros and cons of going to the public theatre, it is a patent fact that it has undermined the morals and ruined the character of many a youth in his country.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Character
  • Morals
  • Patent

• When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Law
  • Morals
  • Vice versa

• Politics have no relation to morals.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Politics
  • Relation
  • Morals

• The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Music
  • Theory
  • Effect

• Morals are a luxury of the rich.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Rich
  • Luxury
  • Morals

• Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Art
  • Experience
  • Morals

• Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.

  

  Thomas Cochrane
  • Biology
  • Morals
  • Relativity

• A long while ago an eager group of reformers wrote to me asking if I could suggest anything that would improve the morals of the American people. I replied that the trouble with the American people in general was not lack of morals but lack of brains.

  

  Gertrude Atherton
  • Trouble
  • Morals
  • American People

• The Jew is not satisfied with de-Christianizing, he Judiazizes, he destroys the Catholic or Protestant faith, he provokes indifference but he imposes his idea of the world of morals and of life upon those whose faith he ruins. He works at his age old task, the annilation of the religion of Christ.

  

  Bernard Lazare
  • Faith
  • Christ
  • Satisfied

• I think my morals are perfectly... tight!

  

  Essie Davis
  • I Think
  • Morals

• The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Food
  • Best
  • Diet

• If life gives you lemons, make some kind of fruity juice.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Life
  • Juice
  • Lemons

• It's funny, you go to Jerry's house, and he's got like dogs and a stream and he just hangs out...he doesn't have bikini dancers on every surface at his house, you know? We're easy-going guys.

  

  Mike Inez Black Label Society
  • House
  • Guys
  • Dogs

• I always wanted to be a singer, and so, when I was 5 years old, I started acting classes so I could be a better performer. I wanted to have a powerful voice so I could be heard.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Powerful
  • Better
  • Acting

• If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • Fighting
  • Doing

• Confidence in the natural world is self-reliance; in the spiritual world, it is God-reliance.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • World
  • God
  • Spiritual

• I consider morals and aesthetics one and the same, for they cover only one impulse, one drive inherent in our consciousness – to bring our life and all our actions into a satisfactory relationship with the events of the world as our consciousness wants it to be, in harmony with our life and according to the laws of consciousness itself.

  

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