Albert Einstein 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 -
The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.
Radhanath Swami -
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 -
For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.
Kailash Satyarthi -
The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.
Yair Lapid
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
Immanuel Kant -
The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
Irving Babbitt -
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 -
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 -
Morality is contraband in war.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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 -
One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
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 -
Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
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
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I am not getting you a brain, because I am not that kind of assistant, Dr. Frankenstein.
Rachel Caine -
His voice stopped and they looked for a long quiet moment into each other's eyes and between them lay the sunny lost youth that they had so unthinkingly shared.
Margaret Mitchell -
Joy is not gush. Joy is not mere jolliness. Joy is perfect acquiescence ~ acceptance, rest ~ in God’s will, whatever comes.
Amy Carmichael -
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.
Elvis Costello -
There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.
Albert Einstein