"His morality is all sympathy, just what..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde
His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be
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“The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.”
“Nature is always behind the age”
“Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.”
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“I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.”
“Through our scientific and technological genius we've made of this world a neighborhood. And now through our moral and ethical commitment we must make of it a brotherhood. We must all learn to live together as brothers-or we will all perish together as fools.”
“If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.”
More on Sympathy
“Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.”
“It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.”
“True sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.”