Body Quote by Benjamin Franklin

There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of.

— Joseph Butler

The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of…

— Henry Ward Beecher

As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that…

— Charles Caleb Colton

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of…

— Christopher Hitchens

The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if we prefer,…

— Henry David Thoreau

I think we need to start thinking about grounding our moral systems in our biology.

— Frans de Waal

The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them - we break ourselves upon…

— E. Stanley Jones

“All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature. Therefore is nature glorious with form, color, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat.…

— Mark Twain

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

— Alan Watts