It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Man is like a tree, with the mighty trunk of intellect, the spreading branches of imagination, and the roots of the lower… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
No light privilege is it to have a hand in building up the moral life of these new communities; no common honour… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
What more does man want to know than that the hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipotent? Let… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“There is an intimate connection between our moral life and our intellectual life. Sometimes I think the history of our times can… — James V. Schall Copy Share Image
Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; consider Nature as if she were full… — William James Copy Share Image
You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The Christian faith, simply stated, reminds us that our fundamental problem is not moral; rather, our fundamental problem is spiritual. It is… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
It is a fool only, and not the philosopher, nor even the prudent man, that will live as if there were no… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The recasting of the Origin Myth as a story about the perils of disobedience precipitated a kind of decoupling of scripture from… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
We should seek to free the moral life from the embarrassments and entanglements in which it has been involved by the quibbles… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
Style is, above all, a system of forms with a quality and a meaningful expression through which the personality of the artist… — Meyer Schapiro Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“if one lived a moral life, was mindful of one’s actions, and developed wisdom, he taught, it was possible to dispel ignorance,… — Christopher Lascelles Copy Share Image
It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical. Nothing will dignify and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One must speak for a struggle for a new culture, that is, for a new moral life that cannot but be intimately… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image