“Poetry is an ethic. By ethic I mean a secret code of behavior, a discipline constructed and conducted according to the capabilities of a man who rejects the falsifications of the categorical imperative.” MenMeanSecretDisciplineBehaviorEthicsCodeRejectsPoetry IsCapabilityImperativesFalsificationCategorical Imperative Author:Jean Cocteau
“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.” GivingCertainSecretEmotionRightsMankindDutyFormerLatterUnconditionalImperativesBenevolenceConditional Author:Immanuel Kant