Zitat des Tages über Moralist:
Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in his way, and there are many biologists and physicists of the first order who are like that.
Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.
The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.
A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.
But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.