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“Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life.”

Book:Ethics

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Ethics

This book delves into the fundamental questions of ethics, examining various theories and perspectives on moral reasoning and behavior. more

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

German pastor, theologian, philosopher, and member of the resistance against the Nazis. Born on February 4, 1906, in Germany, he was executed on April 9, 1945 in a concentration camp. more

“What attracted me was less art itself than the artist’s life and all that it meant for me: the idea of creativity and freedom of expression and action. I had been attracted to painting and drawing for a long time, but it was not an irresistible passion; what I wanted, at all costs, was to escape the monotony of life.”

Long Art Ideas Action Wanted Artist Passion Creativity Painting Expression Cost Long Time Drawing Irresistible Freedom Of Expression Monotony Painting And Drawing

Author:Pierre Bonnard

“One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness.”

Ifs World Inspirational Imagine Mystery Live Life Museums Living My Life Enjoy Life Strangeness Enigma

Author:Giorgio de Chirico

“Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life.”

Mind Dream Certain Mystery Objects Strange Aspect Phenomenon Inexplicable Aspects Of Life Strange Phenomena

Author:Giorgio de Chirico

“There is silver blue, sky blue and thunder blue. Every colour holds within it a soul, which makes me happy or repels me, and which acts as a stimulus. To a person who has no art in him, colours are colours, tones tones...and that is all. All their consequences for the human spirit, which range between heaven to hell, just go unnoticed.”

Humans Persons Art Soul Spirit Heaven Hell Sky Consequence Blue Range Tone Colour Silver Thunder Human Spirit Stimulus Make Me Happy Unnoticed Blue Sky

Author:Emil Nolde

“Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time.”

Believe Art Soul Beautiful Race Proud Art Is All Time These Days Greek Rising Solitary Rise Above Exalted Assyrians

Author:Emil Nolde

“Yellow can express happiness, and then again, pain. There is flame red, blood red, and rose red; there is silver blue, sky blue, and thunder blue; every color harbors its own soul, delighting or disgusting or stimulating me.”

Soul Pain Blood Sky Color Red Blue Rose Flames Silver Yellow Disgusting Thunder Harbors Blue Sky

Author:Emil Nolde

“I must live in my own excrement, breathe in my own poisonous sticky fumes. Yet I am a human being! I still am. Does no one think of that?”

Thinking Humans Doe Stills My Own Human Beings Breathe Poisonous Sticky

Author:Egon Schiele

“I shall go so far that people will be seized with terror at the sight of each of my works of 'living' art.”

People Art Sight Terror

Author:Egon Schiele

“No erotic work of art is filth if it is artistically significant; it is only turned into filth through the beholder if he is filthy.”

Ifs Art Art Is Significant Works Of Art Erotic Filthy Filth Beholder

Author:Egon Schiele

“For a long time now my heart has had its shutters closed, its steps deserted, formerly a tumultuous hotel, but now empty and echoing like a great empty tomb.”

Heart Long Steps My Heart Long Time Empty Hotel Tombs Deserted Shutters

Author:Gustave Flaubert

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