As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness. — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of so much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Those who still eat flesh when they could do otherwise have no claim to be serious moralists. — Stephen R. L. Clark Copy Share Image
Utilitarianism is a philosophy from the olden days exploring the idea that whatever is best for the majority is the fairest. — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
“...perhaps great sins start as simple weakness, and the consistent placing of self before others.” — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
God does not care what good you did, but why you did it. He does not grade the fruit but probes the… — Angelus Silesius Copy Share Image
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation. — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The most powerful lessons about ethics and morality do not come from school discussions or classes in character building. They come from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We can't have moral obligations to every single person in this world. We have moral obligations to those who we come up… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is only one way fit for a man -- Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The best way to overcome the world is not with morality or self-discipline. Christians overcome the world by seeing the beauty and… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
Ethics occupies a central place in philosophy because it is concerned with sin, with the origin of good and evil and with… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
“Our Western society is so deeply divided between these two approaches (moralism, self-discovery) that hardly anyone can conceive of any other way… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“The stakes in this game are not low. Our enterprise is no less than the introduction of an alternative language, and with… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
Looking to future generations, there is no cause to fear that the social instincts will grow weaker... the social instincts, - the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
People come to have different moral beliefs because they have different non-moral beliefs about relevant facts. People are disposed to believe whatever… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“These studies are the result of my attempt to extract the essence of literature. Literature is either the essential or nothing. I… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Okay. Morality in a nutshell. Don't hurt people if you can avoid it. Don't steal stuff unless you're starving or it's really,… — Ursula Vernon Copy Share Image
Public life, politics and industry should all of them be within our sphere of influence… If we are to infiltrate the professional… — John Rawlings Rees Copy Share Image
