A Quote by Torbjorn Tannsjo

I am indeed a moral realist.

Torbjorn Tannsjo

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Am Indeed Moral Realist

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Torbjorn Tannsjo
Born: 1946

I am not a surrealist. I am only a realist. All this group - surrealists - use my name. No, no, I am realist.

Andre Kertesz

I am now a decided non-naturalist realist. And today we may even speak of a trend towards non-naturalist moral realism.

Torbjorn Tannsjo

Being a moral realist I see normative ethics as a search of the truth about our obligations and a search of explanation; the idea is that moral principles can help us to a moral explanation of our particular obligations.

Torbjorn Tannsjo

The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.

Chuck Close

When I use the term "complex realism", what I'm suggesting is that the writer must be realist, always realist, but not realist in the sense we have usually used the term in literature. If reality today is different from the reality of 30 years ago, we can't keep describing reality in the same way as we did 30 years ago.

Agustin Fernandez Mallo

[Golfers] are a special kind of moral realist who nips the normal romantic and idealistic yearnings in the bud by proving once or twice a week that life is unconquerable but endurable.

Alistair Cooke

At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory.

John Strachan

The child is a realist in every domain of thought, and it is therefore natural that in the moral sphere he should lay more stress on the external, tangible element than on the hidden motive.

Jean Piaget

There is a form of poetic and esthetic and moral genius necessary to make philosophical issues truly incandesce for students, and even though I indeed had some world-class professors myself when I went through the curriculum, I rarely saw such gnosic or concretist/poetic passion among them. I am not speaking of broad histrionics or melodramatic delivery, but rather a moral investment of concern, of loving delight and pathos in exposing one's consciousness to the full horrific and magnificent implications of the materials.

Kenny Smith

A man who has been shot at is a new realist, and what do you say to a realist when the war is a war of ideals?

Michael Shaara

I am a realist. I expect miracles.

Wayne Dyer

I am a social realist writer.

Jed Mercurio

I am a mixture of idealist and realist.

Roger Moore

It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become; indeed, many of us are only saved by timely death from moral petrification, if not from moral corruption.