“An ethic isn’t a fact you can look up. It’s a way of thinking.”
Source: More Than Human (1953), Chapter 3, p. 183
“Isn’t it funny to think that this magnificent piece of matter is in a state of decay? Really, can you think of any other living thing that looks this glorious as it’s dying?”
Source: How to Kill a Rock Star
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“A living thing
Produced too slowly ever to decay;
Of form and aspect too magnificent
To be destroyed.”
William Wordsworth
(1770–1850) English Romantic poet
Yew-Trees, l. 9 (1803).
Context: Of vast circumference and gloom profound,
This solitary Tree! A living thing
Produced too slowly ever to decay;
Of form and aspect too magnificent
To be destroyed.
Jordan Peterson
(1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
"2017 Maps of Meaning 12: Final: The Divinity of the Individual" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V1eMvGGcXQ&t=0s
Lectures
“It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”
Adlai Stevenson
(1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN
As quoted in Born to Run : Origins of the Political Career (2003) by Ronald Keith Gaddie, p. 119
“It’s magnificent, it’s really great. It is quite simple and quite a pure piece.”
Anish Kapoor
(1954) British contemporary artist of Indian birth
Israeli sky in Anish’s steel- India-born artist sculpts landmark symbol for museum
John Stuart Mill
(1806–1873) British philosopher and political economist
"The Contest in America," Fraser’s Magazine (February 1862); later published in Dissertations and Discussions (1868), vol.1 p. 26
Context: War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice, — is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.
