Evolution of mind was altogether another matter and belonged to another science, but whether one traced descent from the shark or the wolf was immaterial even in morals. This matter had been discussed for ages without scientific result. La Fontaine and other fabulists maintained that the wolf, even in morals, stood higher than man; and in view of the late civil war, Adams had doubts of his own on the facts of moral evolution: . Henry Adams
Creation and destruction are the two ends of the same moment. And everything between the creation and the next destruction is the journey of life.
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Amish Tripathi
But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.
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Jostein Gaarder
People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap in the market. But the problem is that it's all backwards. It's not that you do the right thing and hope it pays...
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Tana French
Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.
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Anonymous
We are much too tolerant of the moral aberration of statesmen and bureaucrats.
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Anonymous
More Quotes By Henry Adams
Philosophy .. .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of force. For the first time, the stage-scenery of the senses collapsed; the human mind felt itself stripped naked, vibrating in a void of...
The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.
The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression.
