Oscar Wilde Quotes About Ethics
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Duty is what one expects from others.
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Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.
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Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.
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Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.
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No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!
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Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.
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I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.
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I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
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What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity Sin increases the experience of the race. Through its intensified assertion of individualism it saves us from monotony of type. In its rejection of the current notions about morality, it is one with the higher ethics.
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I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.
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