How come one knows whats going on in another persons head...and label it decent or indecent? Actually real decency is scarce, what we consider as decent now could be just a pretence and nothing else.
"Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel shamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, "It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver."
''The first question which the priest and the Levite asked [on the Jericho Road] was: ?If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But...the good Samaritan reversed the question: ?If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?''
''There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.''
''The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.''
“That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end”
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''Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence.''
God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
How come one knows whats going on in another persons head...and label it decent or indecent?
Actually real decency is scarce, what we consider as decent now could be just a pretence and nothing else.
Does this photo of horse is to show the scarcity of decent men around :)?
Distance tests a horse's strength. Time reveals a person's character.
"Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel shamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, "It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver."
Sacrificing your happiness for the happiness of the others, is by far, the truest type of love!!
''Do not overestimate the decency of the human race.''
No i am not!
''The first question which the priest and the Levite asked [on the Jericho Road] was: ?If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But...the good Samaritan reversed the question: ?If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?''
They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
''As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.''
Just do what you do best.
''There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.''
All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
''The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.''
what? :)
''This fellow isn't crazy. We were just doing philosophy. --''
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
''Hell is empty and all the devils are here.''
where?
Don't you know? Here! :)
Where facts are few, experts are many.
“That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end”
The way I feel about decency is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.
“There are two freedoms; The false, where man is free to do what he likes; The true, where man is free to do what he ought.''
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