“Kant was right; morality did in the eighteenth century, as a matter of historical fact, presuppose something very like the teleological scheme… — Alasdair C. MacIntyre Copy Share Image
There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived… — David Hume Copy Share Image
My hopes and aspirations haven't changed since I started in this business. They've been to be able to play drama, to be… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
“Christian ethics makes sense of human life from a moral perspective, presenting us with a vision of what it means to be… — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
You have to have a character; you have to build your character. If you understand the pro wrestling scheme of things, then… — Colby Covington Copy Share Image
When virtue is pictured as innocence and innocence equated with childlikeness, the implication is obviously that knowledge and experience are no longer… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Positively, he [Heidegger] shows that the prospect of death doesn't of itself destroy all possibilities of meaning but calls instead for these… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“Reputation is what others think of us; character is what God knows of us. When you have spent what feels like eternity… — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
Conscience, the sense of right, the power of perceiving moral distinctions, the power of discerning between justice and injustice, excellence and baseness,… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Hope and Crosby made seven 'Road' movies, starting in 1940 with 'Road to Singapore.' The movies were always about Crosby and Hope… — Frank Oz Copy Share Image
The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
When writers are self-conscious about themselves as writers they often keep a great distance from their characters, sounding as if they were… — Jerome Stern Copy Share Image
It's nice to sort of walk in and at least create the illusion that you are, or your character is, a well-rounded… — Luke Roberts Copy Share Image
Egoism , which is the moving force of the world, and altruism , which is its morality , these two contradictory instincts… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I'm not really interested in playing famous people. I prefer to create characters. And I hope I have an exciting enough life… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
The book [Night manager] is amazing. It is amazing to act in any book adaptation, because a book gives you so many… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Obviously, with a CGI character, you're building a character in much the same way as a real creature is built. You build… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
I don't believe, in a show like ours, that you really want to see character growth. That's just my opinion. Maybe to… — Ty Burrell Copy Share Image
Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Great as heaven and earth are, men still find some things in them with which to be dissatisfied. Thus it is that,… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Like most people, I have encountered my own share of pain as I have advanced along the path of life. But I… — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
“Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality. An error of knowledge is not a moral flaw,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Legalized abortion is a national holocaust; an affront to our national character; a contradiction of established principles subscribed to from the beginning… — Chuck Baldwin Copy Share Image
“For know that this is the command of God; and I believe that no greater good has ever happened in the state… — Plato Copy Share Image
All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I would have, then, our ordinary dwelling-houses built to last, and built to be lovely; as rich and full of pleasantness as… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When I got the script to this movie, The Good Girl, I read it in an hour. The writer, Mike White, has… — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
“Moral excellence does not consist in aggregating pleasures and pains but in aligning them, so that we delight in noble things and… — Michael J. Sandel Copy Share Image
I just rely on the text to speak for itself and then speak it as I believe it to interpret it, and… — Brendan Fraser Copy Share Image
I felt a particular attachment, naturally, to the Superman character and really dug deep, but at the same time, I am a… — Joseph McGinty Nichol Copy Share Image
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I'm character-driven. If it's a great character and something different; because I find that a lot of the times you do get… — A. J. Cook Copy Share Image
Anyone can hold a grudge, but it takes a person with character to forgive. When you forgive, you release yourself from a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love taking a character and raining holy hell down on them and seeing how they respond, how they react. It's one… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
“It says if you want to have a happy marriage, be the kind of person who generates positive energy and sidesteps negative… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
David knew that the very quality of his worship was not based on his own volition but on the object of his… — Laura Story Copy Share Image
Because it all derived from Superman. I mean, I love all the characters, but Superman is just this perfect human pop-culture distillation… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
'God' is the name given to the most 'important' human idea. In English, as in other languages, the original sense of the… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
We in Illumination Entertainment tend not to put ideas through a brand funnel. We've collected a group of people who share a… — Christopher Meledandri Copy Share Image
“Left to itself every literature will exhaust its vitality, if it is not refreshed by the interest and contributions of a foreign… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image