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“There is nothing more practical than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions of mankind”

Emotion Mankind Higher Practicals Appeals Preservation

Book:In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena

Source: In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena

“Deceit for personal gain is one of history's most recurring crimes. Man's first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting, straightening, perfecting, then believing every original idea he intends to make public before making it public. There is always an angle from which an absolute truth may appear askew just as there is always a personal emotion, or a personal agenda, which alienates the ultimate good of mankind.”

Source: Killosophy

“Dear, dear, the miniature world of the family! All the emotions of mankind seem to find a place in it.”

World Seems Emotion Family Mankind Dear Miniatures

Book:Parents and children

Source: Parents and children

“Both love of mankind, and respect for their rights are duties; the former however is only a conditional, the latter an unconditional, purely imperative duty, which he must be perfectly certain not to have transgressed who would give himself up to the secret emotions arising from benevolence.”

Giving Certain Secret Emotion Rights Mankind Duty Former Latter Unconditional Imperatives Benevolence Conditional

Author:Immanuel Kant

“In all the known history of Mankind, advances have been made primarily in physical technology; in the capacity of handling the inanimate world about Man. Control of self and society has been left to to chance or to the vague gropings of intuitive ethical systems based on inspiration and emotion. As a result no culture of greater stability than about fifty-five percent has ever existed, and these only as the result of great human misery.”

Source: The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction

“The emotions of the spectator will still be very apt to fall short of the violence of what is felt by the sufferer. Mankind, though naturally sympathetic, never conceive, for what has befallen another, that degree of passion which naturally animates the person principally concerned.”

Persons Stills Fall Passion Felt Emotion Violence Mankind Degrees Empathy Concerned Spectators Sympathetic Sufferers

Book:Adam Smith: Selected Philosophical Writings

Source: Adam Smith: Selected Philosophical Writings