“Knowing what's moral is easy, acting on it is the difficult part.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Morality does not come from a book, it comes from the human mind.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“A cowardly tyrant only remembers his own greatness in imagination.” — Duop Chak Wuol Copy Share Image
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Neither party has God on its side, a monopoly on good ideas, or a lock on any single fiscal, social, or moral… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
We can not too much or too often warn against the lax or even base manner of thought which seeks its principles… — Kant Copy Share Image
“Self-centeredness is the basis for all sorts of immoral behavior as well as all the sorrows of humanity.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It is of note that for a long time moral nihilism was a kind of unquestioned default position in analytic moral philosophy. — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Contemporary moral philosophy has found an original way of being boring, which is by not discussing moral issues at all. — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
“Distant wrongs, she thought: an interesting issue in moral philosophy. Do past wrongs seem less wrong to us simply because they are… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“One’s love for his country is a very sacred emotion that is intertwined with their sense of moral obligation and is an… — Aysha Taryam Copy Share Image
Any moral philosophy is exceedingly rare. This of Menu addresses our privacy more than most. It is a more private and familiar,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“As you say of yourself, I too am an Epicurean . I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“It was George Bernard Shaw who famously said that you should not do to others as you would wish to be done… — Will Buckingham Copy Share Image
I think that both Mill and Sidgwick are great and admirable philosophers, from whom we still have a lot to learn. I… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The Interpretation of the Laws of Nature in a Common-wealth, dependeth not on the books of Moral Philosophy. The Authority of writers,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Almost every single intellectual has been obsessed with an illustrious question - what drives morality! Yet none of them has been able… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I would say to anybody who thinks that all the problems in philosophy can be translated into empirically verifiable answers - whether… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Don't Shoot is a work of moral philosophy that reads like a crime novel - Immanuel Kant meets Joseph Wambaugh. It's a… — John Seabrook Copy Share Image
I would say the 1980s, most importantly, there's been a witnessing of the bankruptcy of the liberal philosophy and the anti-moral and… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
The Consequentialist trinity is typically regarded in this way: Bentham is crude, Mill's writings are full of howlers and inconsistencies, and Sidgwick… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“...most gentlemen of breeding considered themselves amateurs at all kinds of disciplines. Go all the way back to Jefferson, who collected fossils… — Jack Hitt Copy Share Image
I think moral philosophy is speculation on how we ought to live together done by people who have very little clue how… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Scientific theories never dictate human values, but they can often cast new light on ethical issues. From a sexual selection viewpoint, moral… — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
“ An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations , which Smith published in 1776, is the most… — Jerry Z. Muller Copy Share Image
“Still more central to his anger and frustration, and lying perhaps at the very roots of his hatred for the capitalist system,… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
“Cordelia – “Why so rough?” Aral – “It’s very poor. It was the town center during the time Isolation. And it hasn’t… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“So far I have not said much about objectivity, though earlier chapters have had a good deal to do with it. If… — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
“Let your mind become a lens, thanks to the converging rays of attention; let your soul be all intent on whatever it… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“Thus, because Christian morality leaves animals out of account (of this, more later on), they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals;… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“What now matters most is how we respond to various risks to the survival of humanity. We are creating some of these… — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
“Lovers of freedom are, of course, also by and large lovers of tolerance and permissiveness. Being tolerant and permissive, especially toward others,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
One of the most destructive anti-concepts in the history of moral philosophy is the term 'duty. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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