Even if we ignore the 'non-theoretical' knowledge which we acquire through experience (such as the knowledge of what something tastes like) and… — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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So much confusion about belief in God, morality, and science arises, not from what people say they believe, but rather from mistaken… — Francis J. Beckwith Copy Share Image
Change is always subjective. All through evolution you find that the conquest of nature comes by change in the subject. Apply this… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
...the pretense is made, as it has been made in relation to the finding of any extension of truth, that to do… — Brock Chisholm Copy Share Image
I think novelists are in the education business, really, but they're not teaching you times tables, they are teaching you responsiveness and… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“When the gap between the world of the city and the world my grandfather had presented to me as right and good… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
[F]or avoiding the extremes of despotism or anarchy . . . the only ground of hope must be on the morals of… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
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Golden Rule lies at the heart of every religious and of every ethical system of morality, it what makes us look at… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
We're always projecting our moral categories on things. I think that's inevitable. But capitalism places no particular value on morality. Morality in… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe virtue to an atheist, it's as… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
I don't apologize for my behavior anymore. Whatever I do or don't do shouldn't matter. Moral certainty is dangerous. Moral certainty is… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
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The foundations of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality, and the preeminence of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
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“We are put together in such a way that although we can be pushed and pulled and drowsied by flickering images, we… — J. Budziszewski Copy Share Image
My mind has two opposite ends of the spectrum as it's priority points. Spiritual enlightenment and financial prosperity. My goal is to… — Karishma Brahmbhatt Copy Share Image
“Absolution is the washing away of sin. The promise of rebirth. And the chance to escape the transgressions of those who came… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
The moral authority in the Western world is gone. And it is gone forever. It is gone, not because of the criminal… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We need to attack the false foundation of autonomous human reasoning that leads to evolution and millions of years, and proclaim that… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
Posterity has never made the grave's embrace less cruel. It simply assuages our fear of death, because there is no better cure… — Yasmina Khadra Copy Share Image
Some people think that in order to lead a morally decent life one may sometimes have to forego the possibility of having… — Samuel Scheffler Copy Share Image
Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too. Even… — Ursula K. Le Guin 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
[T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it—that no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I personally would go further and say that, if your morality is based, as mine is, on a desire to increase the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The Jew...is not content merely to destroy Christianity, but he preaches the gospel of Judaism; he not only assails the Catholic or… — Bernard Lazare Copy Share Image
What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Religion is not simply a theory, it is a higher life, of which morality is an integral part - a life devoted… — African Spir Copy Share Image
As for me, you wonder why I am a socialist. I'll tell you. It is because socialism is inevitable; because the present… — Jack London Copy Share Image
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To ask about the 'source' of rights or morals assumes an erreous conclusion. To ask about the source of morals is to… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests.… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
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