Stoic Quotes: Timeless Wisdom for a Fulfilling Life - page 23
Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability.
For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.
Paul Ricoeur
The multitude . . . have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them. . . . It is not safe to trust to the virtue of any people.
This, by the way, is the welfare state in action: Its a whole bunch of special interest groups screwing consumers and taxpayers, and making them think they're really benefiting.
Murray Rothbard
To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.
We negotiate with chaos for some sense of satisfaction.
Ani DiFranco
My personal coaching philosophy, my mentality, has always been to make things as difficult as possible for players in practice, however bad we can make them, I make them.
Bill Belichick
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
How many years will you crawl through this castle, so satisfied and still wanting more?
Roger McGuinn
I tried for the longest time to find out what deconstructionism was. Nobody was able to explain it to me clearly. The best answer I got was from a writer, who said, 'Honey, it's bad news for you and me.
I don't have a philosophy. I have an instinct. I accept stuff that I like.
Lee Klein
I don’t have a philosophy. I have a camera. I look into the camera and take pictures. My photographs are the tiniest part of what I see that could be photographed. They are fragments of endless possibilities.
Saul Leiter
Murder, considered a crime when people commit it singly, is transformed into a virtue when they do it en masse.
Cyprian
Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.
Karl Jaspers
Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action
NEWTONIAN, Pertaining to a philosophy of the universe invented by Newton, who discovered that an apple will fall to the ground, but was unable to say why. His successors and disciples have advanced so far as to be able to say when.
Politics moves upward into ethics, and ethics ascends to theology.
Russell Kirk
