Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
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Oscar Wilde
The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned
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Antonio Gramsci
A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.
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Mencius
Dove la moralità è troppo forte l'intelletto perisce.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing, ' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.
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Frank Herbert
More Quotes By Mohsin Hamid
And I ask myself what it is about me that makes this wonderful, beautiful woman return. Is it because I'm pathetic, helpless in my current state, completely dependent on her? Or is it my sense of humour, my willingness to tease her, to joke my...
Some things are too good. They make everything else worthless.
There's a reason prophets perform miracles: language lacks the power to describe faith. And you have to land on faith before you can even begin to hike around to its flip side, betrayal.
We are all migrants through time.
I have this thing about friends and secrets. Sometimes when I meet a person I like, I tell them a secret they don't know me well enough to be told. It lets me judge their potential as a friend.
