"For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art than science, if, that is, unity is to be preserved in the work generally."

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Source : Friedrich Schleiermacher (1836). “Introductions to the Dialogues of Plato”, p.173

Friedrich Schleiermacher

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“It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one "to have his passion as a profession.”

Source : Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1988). “In Praise of Philosophy and Other Essays”, p.4, Northwestern University Press
“I do believe CDSs [credit default swaps] have been miscast, much as poor workmen tend to blame their tools.”

Source : "The woman who built financial 'weapon of mass destruction'" by David Teather, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.
“Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.”
“Early love is exciting and exhilarating. It's light and bubbly. Anyone can love like that. But after three children, after a separation and a near-divorce, after you've hurt each other and forgiven each other, bored each other and surprised each other, after you've seen the worst and the best-- well, that sort of love is ineffable. It deserves its own word.”

Source : Liane Moriarty (2010). “What Alice Forgot”, p.367, Penguin UK
“The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Nevertheless, like the greater part of our misfortunes, even so serious a contingency brings its remedy and consolation with it, if the sufferer will but make the best, rather than the worst, of the accident which has befallen him.”
“I show off - I'm a very good show off. It's what I do, it's what I'm good at.”
“The Holy Spirit said I was blessed and was going to touch hearts everywhere.”
“Light, air, sound. In every space, it's how you embrace those things.”

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