What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.

Ce qui est beauy est moral, voila tout, et rien de plus.

Gustave Flaubert

Letters of Gustave Flaubert

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Moral theory Morality

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Gustave Flaubert

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Letters of Gustave Flaubert

Medium

Letter

Language

French

Time

1880 1880s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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France Europe

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Flaubert, Gustave. Letter to Guy de Maupassant. 16 Feb. 1880.

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Gustave Flaubert
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Medium
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Time
1857 1850s 19th century
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Flaubert, Gustave. Letter to Mademoiselle Leroyer de Chantepie. c. 1840.

Another quote from the 1880s

One must have chaos inside oneself to give birth to a dancing star.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Inner turmoil Genius Creativity

Author

Friedrich Nietzsche
Source
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
German
Time
1883 1880s 19th century
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Original Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen [Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None]. Chemnitz: Ernst Schmeitzner, 1883, pt. 1.

Current Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, edited by Robert Pippin, translated by Adrian Del Caro. Cambridge University Press, 2006, pt. 1.

Another quote about Moral theory

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.

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Moral relativism Moral theory Morality
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Alfred North Whitehead
Language
English
Time
1941 1940s 20th century
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Whitehead, Alfred North. Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead, edited by Lucien Price. David. R. Godine, 2008, ch. 22. Originally from dialogue with Lucien Price, 30 Aug. 1941.

Another quote originally in French

In the desert there is all-and yet nothing…God is there and man is not.

Honoré de Balzac

La Comédie humaine

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The desert

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Honoré de Balzac
Source
A Passion in the Desert La Comédie humaine
Medium
Novel
Language
French
Time
1830 1820s 19th century
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Citation

De Balzac, Honoré. "Une passion dans le desert [A Passion in the Desert]." Revue de Paris, 26 Dec. 1830.