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Everything good that is not based on a morally good disposition, however, is nothing but pretense and glittering misery.

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 Everything good that is not based on a morally good disposition, however, is nothing but pretense and glittering misery.

Oct 22,2020

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#quotes #philosophy #good #Immanuel Kant #Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose #morality #ethics

This is what that skilled and good orator will look to when he applies to people’s souls whatever speeches he makes as well

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 This is what that skilled and good orator will look to when he applies to people’s souls whatever speeches he makes as well

Oct 27,2020

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#quotes #evil #philosophy #good #plato #ethics #Socrates #Gorgias #rhetoric #justice #injustice #virtue #vice

There is tenderness only in the coarsest demand: that no-one shall go hungry any more.

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 There is tenderness only in the coarsest demand: that no-one shall go hungry any more.

Oct 28,2020

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#quotes #philosophy #Theodor W. Adorno #morality #ethics #Minima Moralia #needs #demands

My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in

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 My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in

Nov 03,2020

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#quotes #philosophy #suffering #empathy #joy #morality #ethics #George Eliot #sympathy

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing,

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 There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing,

Nov 07,2020

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#quotes #dancing #music #art #philosophy #ethics #values #Socrates #virtue #Michel de Montaigne #Essais

Morality is the relation of actions to the autonomy of the will, that is, to a possible giving of universal law through

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 Morality is the relation of actions to the autonomy of the will, that is, to a possible giving of universal law through

Nov 08,2020

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#quotes #philosophy #Immanuel Kant #morality #ethics #autonomy #will #Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals #actions #universality

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

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 A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

Nov 09,2020

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#quotes #philosophy #thought #language #thinking #ethics #values #Simone Weil

Equality does not imply the leveling of individual differences, nor that individuals should be made physically, morally,

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 Equality does not imply the leveling of individual differences, nor that individuals should be made physically, morally,

Nov 11,2020

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#quotes #philosophy #politics #individuality #ethics #equality #justice #Mikhail Bakunin #Revolutionary Catechism #identity #diversity

Examine yourself, whether you would rather be rich or happy; if rich, be assured that this is neither a good, nor altogether

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 Examine yourself, whether you would rather be rich or happy; if rich, be assured that this is neither a good, nor altogether

Nov 13,2020

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#quotes #Happiness #philosophy #good #fragments #ethics #virtue #Epictetus #wealth #stoicism

Failure is a very condition of life; one can never dream of eliminating it without immediately dreaming of death. This does

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 Failure is a very condition of life; one can never dream of eliminating it without immediately dreaming of death. This does

Nov 17,2020

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#quotes #life #philosophy #death #struggle #Simone de Beauvoir #The Ethics of Ambiguity #ethics #failure

When people injure you, ask yourself what good or harm they thought would come of it. If you understand that, you’ll

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 When people injure you, ask yourself what good or harm they thought would come of it. If you understand that, you’ll

Nov 20,2020

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#quotes #philosophy #empathy #morality #ethics #virtue #sympathy #Marcus Aurelius #Meditations #anger #compassion

A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.

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 A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.

Nov 21,2020

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#quotes #philosophy #memory #imagination #future #past #present #ethics #Baruch Spinoza

Virtue alone affords everlasting and peace-giving joy; even if some obstacle arises, it is but like an intervening cloud,

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 Virtue alone affords everlasting and peace-giving joy; even if some obstacle arises, it is but like an intervening cloud,

Nov 23,2020

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#quotes #Happiness #philosophy #joy #Seneca #morality #ethics #virtue #Moral Letters to Lucilius

Don’t say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

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 Don’t say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

Nov 29,2020

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#quotes #philosophy #choices #morality #ethics #Ralph Waldo Emerson #speech #actions #Letters and Social Aims

Every man is capable of doing good to another, but to contribute to the happiness of an entire society is to become akin to

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 Every man is capable of doing good to another, but to contribute to the happiness of an entire society is to become akin to

Dec 02,2020

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#quotes #Happiness #philosophy #good #society #humanity #ethics #virtue #Montesquieu #Persian Letters

It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He must be

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 It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He must be

Dec 05,2020

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#quotes #philosophy #Arthur Schopenhauer #questions #courage #enlightenment #ethics #virtue #answers #inquiry

Any emotion of a given individual differs from the emotion of another individual, only in so far as the essence of the

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 Any emotion of a given individual differs from the emotion of another individual, only in so far as the essence of the

Dec 05,2020

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#quotes #Feelings #philosophy #humanity #emotions #individuality #ethics #Baruch Spinoza

But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.

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 But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.

Dec 08,2020

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#quotes #life #philosophy #ethics #albert camus #Notebooks #being #seeming

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for

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 If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for

Dec 14,2020

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#quotes #henry david thoreau #walden #philosophy #individuality #ethics #paternalism

A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals,

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 A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals,

Dec 15,2020

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#quotes #philosophy #politics #morality #ethics #Alasdair MacIntyre #A Short History of Ethics

Nothing is more dangerous for man’s private morality than the habit of command. The best man, the most intelligent,...

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 Nothing is more dangerous for man’s private morality than the habit of command. The best man, the most intelligent,...

Dec 16,2020

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#quotes #philosophy #power #Authority #morality #ethics #contempt #Mikhail Bakunin #command #orders

I prefer uneloquent good sense to loquacious folly.

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 I prefer uneloquent good sense to loquacious folly.

Dec 16,2020

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#quotes #philosophy #ethics #Cicero #speech #De Oratore #eloquence

It is the most difficult thing in the world to distinguish between genuine stupidity, and that apparent and deceitful

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 It is the most difficult thing in the world to distinguish between genuine stupidity, and that apparent and deceitful

Dec 17,2020

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#quotes #philosophy #character #ethics #virtue #stupidity #Jean Jacques Rousseau #Emile or On Education #temperament #stubbornness

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands

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 I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands

Dec 18,2020

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#quotes #philosophy #power #politics #reason #Authority #morality #ethics #Mary Wollstonecraft #A Vindication of the Rights of Woman #obligation