Rinascita Carolingia Quotes & Sayings

The philosopher Edmund Pincoffs has argued that consequentialists and deontologists worked together to convince Westerners in the twentieth century that morality is the study of moral quandaries and dilemmas. Where the Greeks focused on the character of a person and asked what kind of person we should each aim to become, modern ethics focuses on actions, asking when a particular action is right or wrong ... This turn from character ethics to quandary ethics has turned moral education away from virtues and toward moral reasoning. If morality is about dilemmas, then moral education is training in problem solving. — Jonathan Haidt

Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins — Nathaniel Parker Willis

I think the best collaborations in comics come from a lot of talks with the artists where you are finding out what they want to draw, what kind of villains they want to do. — Ann Nocenti

We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held. — W. Averell Harriman

There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious. — C.S. Lewis

All growth, including political growth, is the result of risk-taking. — Jude Wanniski

I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Every systemic market injustice arose from some loophole in a regulation created to correct some prior injustice. — Michael Lewis

It is by man's own hand that he finds his destruction and it is by his own hand that he will find peace. — Aaron Ozee

I wouldn't call him a slave. I don't whip him when he does something wrong. Just when he does something good. — Shannon Elizabeth

Although we are urged to walk in another man's shoes, I think, first, we have to walk in another pair of our own shoes. Doing that will free up a lot, including our ability to be more compassionate and less judgmental. — Charles F. Glassman

God has to let fags in heaven. Who else could help him decorate, cook, and entertain? We're kind of everywhere. — Anthony Paull

I rescued a dog. It was a beautiful. — Melissa Joan Hart

I am still learning and experiencing things and feel like I cannot state a truth. So I guess one truth I know for sure is that I cannot state one. A paradox. — Richard Brancatisano