#morality

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life. ↗

— Phil Ochs

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Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life. ↗

— Phil Ochs

#art #attempt #defeat #even #expect

The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War. ↗

— Kenzaburo Oe

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But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality. ↗

— Roger Penrose

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The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality. ↗

— William Winwood Reade

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Once is a man's life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immorality; if not, he has not lived. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

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Fear is the mother of morality. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names. ↗

— Billy Sunday

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Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul. ↗