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Wherever there are politics or economics no morality exists.

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 Wherever there are politics or economics no morality exists.

Feb 18,2024

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#quotes #philosophy #politics #morality #ethics #ideas #economics #Friedrich Schlegel

True politeness is a polish, not a varnish; and should rather be acquired by observation than admonition.

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 True politeness is a polish, not a varnish; and should rather be acquired by observation than admonition.

Jan 13,2024

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#quotes #philosophy #politeness #morality #ethics #Mary Wollstonecraft #Original Stories from Real Life

All art is immoral.

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 All art is immoral.

Jan 07,2024

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#quotes #oscar wilde #art #Artists #philosophy #creativity #morality #Intentions #norms

To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction, noted, registered, enrolled, taxed, stamped, measured,...

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 To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction, noted, registered, enrolled, taxed, stamped, measured,...

Nov 04,2023

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#quotes #philosophy #government #morality #justice #oppression #Pierre-Joseph Proudhon #General Idea of the Revolution #coercion

There are law-abiding and agreeable people who think and talk about humanity and life as if they were discussing the best way

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 There are law-abiding and agreeable people who think and talk about humanity and life as if they were discussing the best way

Mar 13,2023

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#quotes #philosophy #morality #ethics #Friedrich Schlegel #Athenaeum Fragments #instrumentalism #utilitarianism

The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt

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 The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt

Dec 24,2022

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#quotes #philosophy #good #freedom #liberty #morality #ethics #John Stuart Mill #On Liberty

For my own part, I cannot without grief see so much as an innocent beast pursued and killed that has no defense, and from

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 For my own part, I cannot without grief see so much as an innocent beast pursued and killed that has no defense, and from

Dec 08,2022

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#quotes #philosophy #animals #morality #ethics #values #Michel de Montaigne #Essais

Science enables us to realize our purposes, and if our purposes are evil, the result is disaster.

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 Science enables us to realize our purposes, and if our purposes are evil, the result is disaster.

Nov 23,2022

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#science #quotes #philosophy #morality #ethics #mechanism #Bertrand Russell #instrumentality #Marriage and Morals

Men have their choice in this world. They can be angels, or they may be demons.

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 Men have their choice in this world. They can be angels, or they may be demons.

Nov 12,2022

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#quotes #evil #philosophy #good #choices #morality #ethics #Frederick Douglass

Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which claims universality;...

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 Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which claims universality;...

Jun 21,2022

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#psychology #quotes #quoteoftheday #writer #writing #literature #books #quote #words #wisdom #lit #Perspective #philosophy #prose #quotation #friedrich nietzsche #philosopher #bibliophile #psychoanalysis #society #literary #morality #intellectual honesty #Beyond Good and Evil #rational

Concepts are at the root of it: greed, hatred, bewilderment depend on what is conceived as desirable, despicable or confusing.

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 Concepts are at the root of it: greed, hatred, bewilderment depend on what is conceived as desirable, despicable or confusing.

Mar 10,2022

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#quotes #philosophy #greed #buddhism #desire #morality #ethics #illusion #confusion #judgment #Nāgārjuna #Mūlamadhyamakakārikā #hatred #aversion

We shouldn’t judge others for the sins we might have yet to commit.

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 We shouldn’t judge others for the sins we might have yet to commit.

Mar 08,2022

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#quotes #poets on tumblr #writers on tumblr #writerscreed #deadwatered #poetscommunity #hazyaffection #morality #thoughtkick #anastasiasyah #haleyincarnate #4bella #4tray #veincold #loveserum #flowercavities #usermaximoff #sins

Those who are more skilled in railing at vice than in instilling virtue, and who break rather than strengthen men’

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 Those who are more skilled in railing at vice than in instilling virtue, and who break rather than strengthen men’

Feb 28,2022

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#quotes #philosophy #morality #ethics #Baruch Spinoza #virtue

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

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 There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

Feb 19,2022

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#quotes #henry david thoreau #walden #philosophy #morality #ethics #virtue #goodness

The dull person judges all other people like people but treats them like things, and is absolutely incapable of

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 The dull person judges all other people like people but treats them like things, and is absolutely incapable of

Feb 15,2022

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#quotes #philosophy #morality #ethics #instrumentality #Friedrich Schlegel #equity #Athenaeum Fragments

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

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 The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

Feb 10,2022

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#quotes #philosophy #cruelty #morality #ethics #Bertrand Russell #oppression #Sceptical Essays #conscience

Evils accrue to people from good things, when one does not know how to direct the good things or possess them advantageously.

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 Evils accrue to people from good things, when one does not know how to direct the good things or possess them advantageously.

Jan 13,2022

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#quotes #evil #philosophy #good #humanity #fragments #morality #ethics #Democritus

To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence

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 To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence

Jan 04,2022

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#quotes #philosophy #morality #ethics #Fyodor Dostoyevsky #punishment #the idiot #reciprocity #retribution #law

Material progress may for a time be separated from moral progress. But the two cannot be permanently divorced.

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 Material progress may for a time be separated from moral progress. But the two cannot be permanently divorced.

Dec 30,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #progress #morality #ethics #Frederick Douglass

There is never an instant’s truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

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 There is never an instant’s truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Dec 26,2021

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#quotes #henry david thoreau #walden #philosophy #morality #ethics #virtue #vice

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

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 The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

May 18,2021

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#psychology #quotes #quoteoftheday #writer #writing #literature #books #quote #words #wisdom #lit #philosophy #prose #quotation #friedrich nietzsche #nietzsche #philosopher #bibliophile #psychoanalysis #literary #vanity #morality #intellectual honesty #irony #immorality #Beyond Good and Evil #morals

As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the

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 As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the

May 11,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #success #ideology #Authority #morality #Dialectic of Enlightenment #norms

All that was an element of progress in the past or an instrument of moral and intellectual improvement of the human race is

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 All that was an element of progress in the past or an instrument of moral and intellectual improvement of the human race is

Apr 14,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #progress #morality #ethics #Peter Kropotkin #Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal #mutual aid #anarchism

When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.

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 When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.

Mar 27,2021

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#quotes #evil #franz kafka #philosophy #choices #morality #ethics #beliefs #The Zürau Aphorisms #habits