The constant recollection of death is the test of human…

There is a practice that is most powerful in keeping us united with God. That practice is the constant recollection of His presence.

— Alphonsus Liguori

“Recollection of death also serves as a useful preparation for the time when one actually has to face death. As the concluding exercise among…

— Anālayo

Whatever the situation may be, in the recollection of death there is reward and merit. For even the man engrossed in the world benefits…

— Al-Ghazali

Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct.

— Penelope Fitzgerald

Ethical inquiry has always been motivated by the aim of improving human conduct. It doesn't follow from that that the goal is to produce…

— Philip Kitcher

There is one all-important law of human conduct. If we obey that law, we shall almost never get into trouble. In fact, that law,…

— Dale Carnegie

I take it that reasonable human conduct is part of the ordinary course of things.

— Ryan Lindley

“Most writers on the emotions and on human conduct seem to be treating rather of matters outside nature than of natural phenomena following nature's…

— Baruch Spinoza

Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over human conduct…

— Alexander Hamilton

Institutions provide procedures through which human conduct is patterned, compelled to go, in grooves deemed desirable by society. And this trick is performed by…

— Peter L. Berger

Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.

— Matthew Arnold

At this point, an urgent question arises: [...] Is it our duty to seek to become a thorough and complete human being, one quite…

— Emile Durkheim

Hitherto acceptable norms of human conduct do not apply. If the United States is to survive, long-standing American concepts of 'fair play' must be…

— Jimmy Doolittle

The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation to commit…

— Alexander Hamilton

Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine. Everything in the future will improve if you are making a spiritual…

— Sri Yukteswar Giri