"A psychological explanation of our feelings is not a moral explanation of our conduct."

-- James Rachels

#Feelings Quotes #Moral Quotes #Psychological Quotes

“I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in a combination of noble and striking sounds, our dream of artistic achievement, a pen name grand enough to compensate for my own feeling of insecurity and helplessness at the idea of everything my mother expected from me.”

Source : Romain Gary (1987). “Promise at Dawn”, p.19, New Directions Publishing
“I like the smell of toast. Coffee is okay, but I don't drink much coffee. But toast is a nice smell. You smell some toast coming from your kitchen in the morning, you know that you're involved in a domestic situation and the operation that's going on is pleasant.”
“The great, God-blessed churches in the world today have one common characteristic: an insistence upon an exposition of God's infallible Word.”
“I often refer to myself as a gay man and all my friends are gay and I would like nothing more than for them to be able to be married.”
“In Michigan recently a man won a lawsuit for substantial damages because, he claimed, a rear-end collision in his car had made him a homosexual.”
“Learning is the gradual replacement of fantasy with fact.”
“The process that I want to call scientific is a process that involves the continual apprehension of meaning, the constant appraisal of significance accompanied by a running act of checking to be sure that I am doing what I want to do, and of judging correctness or incorrectness. This checking and judging and accepting, that together constitute understanding, are done by me and can be done for me by no one else. They are as private as my toothache, and without them science is dead.”
“All that five thousand kids lived in those five thousand houses, owned by guys that got off the train. The houses looked so much alike that, time and time again, the kids went home by mistake to different houses and different families. Nobody ever noticed.”

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