Albert Camus Quotes
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Morality covers our conduct, not what goes on inside our heads.
J. G. Ballard -
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
H. L. Mencken -
Let my enemies devour each other.
Salvador Dali -
There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of morality.
Sam Harris -
Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.
Octavio Paz -
There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
D. H. Lawrence
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Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.
Karl Jaspers -
I have seen many teachers in real life, which come from the same background and morality and treat their profession like just another one rather than a noble profession.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance and understanding are at a premium.
Hari Kunzru -
Modern morality is all about perception.
Rachel Cusk -
Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.
Samuel Butler -
Our morality is based on so many factors: of where we were born, who we were born to, what values were instilled in us, what values we chose, the way that our lives have shaped us. That dictates so much of what we assume is our morality, and also the culture, all of these things.
Oscar Isaac
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The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality.
Pat Robertson -
The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
D. H. Lawrence -
My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
Albert Einstein -
But integration and equality are myths; they disguise a new segregation and a new equality...Every social order institutes its own program of separation or segregation. A particular faith and morality is given privileged status and all else is separated for progressive elimination.
R.J. Rushdoony -
they who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at.
Sara Willis -
Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.
Oscar Wilde
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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.
Octavia Spencer -
A lot of the Beatles albums were very various, and we did it on purpose: We didn't want the next track to sound like the last one.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
Everything you can imagine, nature has already created.
Albert Einstein -
Morality, when formal, devours.
Albert Camus