A world that is intellectually mature but morally…

“Both as workers and as consumers, we feel we move in channels that have been projected from afar by vast impersonal forces. We worry…

— Matthew B. Crawford

One cannot enter don Juan's world intellectually, like a dilettante seeking fast and fleeting knowledge. Nor, in don Juan's world, can anything be verified…

— Carlos Castaneda

“We have this extraordinary conceit in the West that while we've been hard at work in the creation of technological wizardry and innovation, somehow…

— Edmund Wade Davis

“You do not need commandments to tell you what is right and wrong, you need reason. YOU NEED TO THINK. What are the consequences…

— Kassandra Dick

We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we…

— William James

For the utilitarian, there is a fact of the matter about the good (the general happiness, or whatever conception of the good the utilitarian…

— Allen W. Wood

“Ethics is a dream.”

— Charles Baxter

IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes…

— Ambrose Bierce

What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess.

— Anonymous

Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or…

— Susan Sontag

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's…

— Phil Ochs

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

— Oscar Wilde

In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end.

— Semir Zeki

If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am…

— Henry David Thoreau