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“[A]ll mental disorders are in some sense passionate convictions about the situation of the self in the world.”
“The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.”
“It's not respectable,' she said. And when people say that, it's no useanyone's saying anything.”
“All history is the experimental refutation of the theory of the so-called moral order of things.”
“Lastly, people seemed to think that morality was the same thing as being politically correct, and it wasn't. Some of the most deeply moral people I knew were least politically correct, because they...”
“We haven't really got anything worth having for our wishes.''We've had things happening,' said Robert; 'that's always something.''It's not enough, unless they're the right things,' said Cyril firmly.”
“That the world calls morality is nothing but the dream of safety. That's how the world gets to be so fucking moral. The only way to know that you are safe is to see somebody else in danger-otherwis...”
“I saw that morality varies from person to person, from group to group, from nation to nation.And the most interesting thing is that when I began to study history, I realised that morality changes w...”
“How exactly does morality change in time?Morality is part of man and it evolves over time just like the rest of humanity in accordance with Darwinian theory. If we said earlier that mans evolution ...”
“. . . [T]o live in an inspired condition, to know truth, to be free, to love another, to consummate existence, to abide with death in clarity of consciousness - without which, racing and conniving ...”
“At the present time it is widely accepted among lawyers that law is higher than moralitylaw is something which is shaped and developed, whereas morality is something inchoate and amorphous. This is...”
“There is no rational commensuration between what affects us and what affects others; the first we sense physically, the other only touches us morally.”
“In the early stages the sexual needs will have the upper hand, in later stages the compulsive moralistic inhibition. At times of political upheavals of the total social organization, the conflict b...”
“If you live long enough there's no line that you won't cross.”
“Once the ego is born into this world, it has to shoulder morality.”
“My thoughts on the descent of our moral prejudices for that is what this polemic is about were first set out in a sketchy and provisional way in the collection of aphorisms entitled Human, All To...”
“...It's not something shared with society, but rather its a personal possession. I've never thought that I wanted to share morality with someone. I feel it's like a white canvas on which nothing is...”
“People never fully confront their wrongdoing. They are all trying to push for their own ends, and they lack the strength to truly apologise for that. In my heart of hearts, I wondered if I was just...”
“Doing the right thing is the surest path to public condemnation.”
“The weakness of our age is in want of great men and women. It is hard to resist the current. Someone must completely detach himself from the ordinary run of politicians if he is to save politics; e...”
