“The essential trait in the moral consciousness, is the control of some feeling or feelings by some other feeling or feelings.” FeelingsConsciousnessMoralEssentialsTraits Book:The Data of Ethics: Great Essays Source: The Data of Ethics: Great Essays
“One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings carry them away. Even their dissimulation comes naturally to them, and in them crime is free of all baseness. Most of the time they simply do not know how it happened.” KnowsReasonFeelingsActionWomenKnow HowHappenedCrimeIllusionTraitsAdmirableBaseness Author:Honore de Balzac
“The sea has been called deceitful and treacherous, but there lies in this trait only the character of a great natural power, which, to speak according to our own feelings, renews its strength, and, without reference to joy or sorrow, follows eternal laws which are imposed by a higher Power.” Has BeensCharacterFeelingsLawJoyLyingSpeakNaturalSeaHigherSorrowEternalTraitsTreacherousHigher PowerDeceitful Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt