Best emotion & moral Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Happiness is not synonymous with pleasure. It is, instead, a deeper emotion that originates from within. . . . Happiness results from a sense of mental and moral contentment with who we are, what we value, and how we invest our time and resources for purposes beyond ourselves.”

Purpose Values Pleasure Results Emotion Moral Resources Deeper Our Time Who We Are Contentment Humanist

Author:David Shi

“We must give as much weight to the arousal of the emotions and to the expression of moral and esthetic values as we now give to science, to invention, to practical organization. One without the other is impotent.”

Giving Values Emotion Moral Expression Organization Weight Practicals Invention Aesthetic Arousal

Author:Lewis Mumford

“On reflection, moral judgment in the arts appears rather as a tribute to their power to influence emotion and possibly conduct. And reflecting further on what some critics do today, one sees that a good many have merely shifted the ground of their moralism, transferring their impulse of righteousness to politics and social issues.”

Art Today Social Emotion Moral Issues Influence Judgment Reflection Critics Impulse Good Man Righteousness Social Issues Reflecting Tribute Moral Judgment Moralism

Book:The Culture We Deserve

Source: The Culture We Deserve

“It cannot be denied that Islam, regarded as an ethical ideal plus a certain kind of polity - by which expression I mean a social structure regulated by a legal system and animated by a specific ethical ideal - has been the chief formative factor in the life-history of the Muslims of India. It has furnished those basic emotions and loyalties which gradually unify scattered individuals and groups, and finally transform them into a well-defined people, possessing a moral consciousness of their own.”

Source: Speeches, Writings, and Statements of Iqbal

“Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning and enrichment, emotion and cognition.”

Emotion Moral Creative Atheism Development Excellence Positive Atheism Combination Enjoyment Cognition Fuse Enrichment Hedonism Moral Development

Author:Paul Kurtz

“Like language, a code of manners can be used with more or less skill, for laudable or for evil purposes, to express a great variety of ideas and emotions. In itself, it carries no moral value, but ignorance in use of this tool is not a sign of virtue.”

Ideas Use Used Purpose Values Evil Language Emotion Moral Virtue Ignorance Skills Tools Variety Manners Code Carrie Moral Values

Book:Common courtesy: in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson

Source: Common courtesy: in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson

“to tempt and be tempted are closely allied; and in spite of all the finest moral maxims buried in the mind, when emotion interferes, when feeling makes its appearance, one is already much further involved that one realizes, and I have still not learnt how to prevent its appearance.”

Mind Stills Feelings Realizing Emotion Moral Involved Appearance Temptation Spite Buried Interfere Finest Tempted Maxims

Author:Catherine the Great

“If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the mean. I refer to moral virtue [not intellectual], for this is concerned with emotions and actions, in which one can have excess or deficiency or a due mean.”

Ifs Looks Mean Art Action Form Emotion Quality Moral Virtue Intellectual Concerned Dues Excess Accurate Hitting Deficiency Craftsman Moral Virtues If Then

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean. Indeed the very names of some directly imply evil, for instance malice, shamelessness, envy, and, of actions, adultery, theft, murder. All these and similar actions and feelings are blamed as being bad in themselves; it is not the excess or deficiency of them that we blame. It is impossible therefore ever to go right in regard to them - one must always be wrong.”

Mean Feelings Action Evil Names Emotion Moral Virtue Impossible Murder Regard Blame Dues Envy Instance Excess Adultery Theft Malice Deficiency Observance Being Bad

Author:Aristotle

“The Puritan, of course, is not entirely devoid of aesthetic feeling. He has a taste for good form; he responds to style; he is even capable of something approaching a purely aesthetic emotion. But he fears this aesthetic emotion as an insinuating distraction from his chief business in life: the sober consideration of the all-important problem of conduct. Art is a temptation, a seduction, a Lorelei, and the Good Man may safely have traffic with it when it is broken to moral uses--in other words, when its innocence is pumped out of it, and it is purged of gusto.”

Source: Prejudices Second Series

“Thoughts and emotions which never perhaps were in the mind of the artist, never were anticipated, never were intended by him - may be strongly suggested by his work. This is an important part of the morals of art, which we must never lose sight of. Art is not only for pleasure and profit, but for good and for evil.”

Mind May Art Important Artist Evil Loses Pleasure Emotion Moral Art Is Sight Profit Thoughts And Emotions

Book:A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

Source: A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

“Love is not an intellectual concept or a moral imperative or anything else. It is the background emotion that exists when one is connected to the energy available in the universe, which of course, is the energy of God.”

Universe Courses Energy Love Is Emotion Moral Divine Intellectual Concepts Available Connected Backgrounds Imperatives Celestine Prophecy

Book:The celestine prophecy: an adventure

Source: The celestine prophecy: an adventure

“Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feelings of moral superiority while asking nothing in return. With contempt you don't need to right the wrong (as with anger) or flee the scene (as with fear or disgust). And the best of all, contempt is made to share. Stories about the moral failings of others are among the most common kinds of gossip, they are a stable of talk radio, and they offer a ready way for people to show that they share a common moral orientation.”

Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

“By eloquence I understand those appeals to our moral perceptions that produce emotion as soon as they are uttered. This is the very enthusiasm that is the parent of poetry. Let the same man go to his closet and clothe in numbers conceptions full of the same fire and spirit, and they will be poetry.”

Men Spirit Parent Numbers Emotion Moral Fire Produce Perception Enthusiasm Appeals Conception Closets Eloquence

Author:Kobe Bryant

“The problem with the emotions is not that they are untamed forces or vestiges of our animal past; it is that they were designed to propagate copies of the genes that built them rather than to promote happiness, wisdom, or moral values.”

Problem Past Values Force Animal Emotion Moral Built Copies Genes Moral Values Untamed

Book:How the Mind Works

Source: How the Mind Works

“Guinevere is just head over heels and doesn't know how to handle these new emotions that she's feeling, as a young woman. Unfortunately, she can't reign it all in, all the time. And, even though she tries to do the right thing and be the good girlfriend and have her morals, she slips up a little bit.”

Knows Trying Littles Feelings Young Bits Emotion Moral Know How Little Bit Handle Right Thing Girlfriend Slips Heels Young Women Reign Good Girl Head Over Heels Guinevere Good Girlfriend

Author:Tamsin Egerton

“The novel may stimulate you to think. It may satisfy your aesthetic sense. It may arouse your moral emotions. But if it does not entertain you it is a bad novel.”

Ifs Thinking May Doe Emotion Moral Novel Aesthetic

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“Eroticism is mystique; that is, the aura of emotion and imagination around sex. It cannot be 'fixed' by codes of social or moral convenience, whether from the political left or right. For nature's fascism is greater than that of any society. There is a daemonic instability in sexual relations that we may have to accept.”

May Political Left Social Sex Imagination Emotion Accepting Moral Greater Relation Code Fixed Fascism Convenience Auras Instability Mystique

Book:Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

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