"The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth."

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Source : "Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times". Book by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, the edition by Philip Ayres, 1999.

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

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“I was then at the height of my two-facedness: that is, outside I seemed one way, inside I was another; outside false, inside true.”
“The existence of very pious feelings, in conjunction with intolerance, cruelty, and selfish policy, has never ceased to surprise and perplex those who have viewed it calmly from a distance. ... It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world. What destruction of the beautiful monuments of past ages, what waste of life, what disturbance of domestic and social happiness, what perverted feelings, what blighted hearts, have always marked its baneful progress!”
“An attitude of permanent indignation signifies great mental poverty. Politics compels it votaries to take that line and you can see their minds growing more impoverished every day, from one burst of righteous indignation to the next.”
“I tried to go to Kosovo to establish a statue to commemorate those who died during the wars, and to discuss moving on, so we could move into a new era. But I was banned from there.”
“To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness”
“And this movie [Real Steel] definitely looks like nothing else I've made, which was the point. I think also, Evangeline and Hugh are such a fantastic... Their chemistry is so genuine. And also it's a good balance to all those visual effects. It'll give you more of the tone.”
“I just turn the record in. I don't think about the commercialism of it, but rather what's getting me off. That's why I stay in this business, because I can still afford to do exactly what I want to do.”
“The point to be grasped from the saintly tradition is that to love animals is not sentimentality (as we know it) but true spirituality. Of course there can be vain, self-seeking loving, but to go (sometimes literally) out of our way to help animals, to expend effort to secure their protection and to feel with them their suffering and to be moved by it-these are surely signs of spiritual greatness.”

Source : Andrew Linzey (2016). “Christianity and the Rights of Animals”, p.45, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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