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16. “As for others and the world around him he never ceased in his heroic and earnest endeavour to love them, to be just to them, to do them no harm, for the love of his neighbor was as deeply in him as the hatred of himself, and so his whole life was an example that love of one's neighbor is not possible without love of oneself, and that self-hate is really the same thing as sheer egoism, and in the long run breeds the same cruel isolation and despair.”
Hermann Hesse
Love, Self-hate, Neighbor, Psychological Insight, Moral Philosophy, Emotional Paradox
18. “Justice consists in seeing that no harm is done to men. Whenever a man cries inwardly: 'Why am I being hurt?' harm is being done to him. He is often mistaken when he tries to define the harm, and why and by whom it is being inflicted on him. But the cry itself is infallible.” Simone Weil Justice, Harm, Suffering, Humanity, Moral Philosophy, Social Responsibility
21. “If we know in what way society is unbalanced, we must do what we can to add weight to the lighter scale... we must have formed a conception of equilibrium and be ever ready to change sides like justice, 'that fugitive from the camp of conquerors'.” Simone Weil Society, Balance, Justice, Social Responsibility, Moral Philosophy, Political Action
28. “Where do you draw the line between a humble man who knows his own weaknesses but tries to act out virtues he hasn't quite mastered yet, and a proud man who pretends to have those virtues without the slightest intention of acquiring them?” Orson Scott Card Humility, Pride, Virtue, Self-improvement, Moral Philosophy, Character Development
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16. “As for others and the world around him he never ceased in his heroic and earnest endeavour to love them, to be just to them, to do them no harm, for the love of his neighbor was as deeply in him as the hatred of himself, and so his whole life was an example that love of one's neighbor is not possible without love of oneself, and that self-hate is really the same thing as sheer egoism, and in the long run breeds the same cruel isolation and despair.”
Hermann Hesse Love, Self-hate, Neighbor, Psychological Insight, Moral Philosophy, Emotional Paradox
18. “Justice consists in seeing that no harm is done to men. Whenever a man cries inwardly: 'Why am I being hurt?' harm is being done to him. He is often mistaken when he tries to define the harm, and why and by whom it is being inflicted on him. But the cry itself is infallible.”
Simone Weil Justice, Harm, Suffering, Humanity, Moral Philosophy, Social Responsibility
21. “If we know in what way society is unbalanced, we must do what we can to add weight to the lighter scale... we must have formed a conception of equilibrium and be ever ready to change sides like justice, 'that fugitive from the camp of conquerors'.”
Simone Weil Society, Balance, Justice, Social Responsibility, Moral Philosophy, Political Action
28. “Where do you draw the line between a humble man who knows his own weaknesses but tries to act out virtues he hasn't quite mastered yet, and a proud man who pretends to have those virtues without the slightest intention of acquiring them?”
Orson Scott Card Humility, Pride, Virtue, Self-improvement, Moral Philosophy, Character Development
