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'Moral education, which ought never, in any circumstances, to be rational.'
Aldous Huxley • Brave New World: Aldous Huxley's Most Popular Dystopian Classic Novel: Aldous Huxley's Most Popular Classic Novel
Select 3 to 5 principles you believe are truly important and never want to violate.
Adam Smith • Slaying Your Fear: A guide for people who grapple with insecurity
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness"
Ethical theories may be divided into two classes, according as they regard virtue as an end or a means. Aristotle, on the whole, takes the view that virtues are means to an end, namely happiness. “The end, then, being what we wish for, the means what we deliberate about and choose, actions concerning means must be according to choice and voluntary.
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He had a great amount of intellectual capacity, of that peculiar kind which raises a man from throne to throne and lets him die loaded with honours without having either amused or enlightened the mind of a single man.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
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