Moral Realists

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“It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Allusion has been made to [Proust’s] contempt for the literature that “describes,” for the realists and naturalists worshipping the offal of experience, prostrate before the epidermis and the swift epilepsy, and content to transcribe the surface, the façade, behind which the Idea is prisoner.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)