Inquiring Quote by Allen W. Wood

There is also purpose in life which is almost barren of both creation and enjoyment and which admits of but one possibility of high…

— Viktor E. Frankl

Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our…

— Kenan Malik

And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost.

— Kate Chopin

“There are no shortcuts to moral insight. Nature is not intrinsically anything that can offer comfort or solace in human terms -- if only…

— Stephen Jay Gould

A growing body of evidence suggests that humans do have a rudimentary moral sense from the very start of life.

— Paul Bloom

It is now generally accepted that the roots of our ethics lie in patterns of behavior that evolved among our pre-human ancestors, the social…

— Peter Singer

Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore, are not…

— David Hume

One might rationally argue that individual human beings should be free choose what moral behavior they approve of, and which they don't, subject to…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance - or, sadly, degrade - this innate moral sense.

— Paul Bloom

It is only within a free society that the crucial moral features of human life can be protected and preserved

— Tibor R. Machan

Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.

— Winston Churchill

“You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there's no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky