Moralists Quote by C.S. Lewis

“Nor could she help feeling, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point…

— Jane Austen

“nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point…

— Jane Austen

Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern Buddhists, the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive and often downright domineering and violent.…

— Aldous Huxley

[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent.

— Mason Cooley

I shall not fear to say that the doctrine of self-interest rightly understood seems to me of all the philosophic theories the most appropriate…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

— Anonymous

We can safely say, therefore, that whereas some moralists may find it possible to make a distinction between two spheres and reigns-one of flesh,…

— Joseph Campbell

Many fledgling moralists in those days were going about our town proclaiming there was nothing to be done about it and we should bow…

— Albert Camus

In ethics, there is a humility; moralists are usually righteous.

— John Berger

“Malice is a greater magnifying-glass than kindness.”

— Marquess of Halifax

We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter are voluntary,…

— Samuel Johnson