Ethics Quotes

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Integrity needs no rules. — Albert Camus
Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity. — Oliver Goldsmith
A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity. — Andrew Carnegie
Let unswerving integrity be your watchword. — Baruch Spinoza
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep. — Denis Waitley
Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the long run, denied. — Eudora Welty
We need a boundless ethics which will include animals also. — Albert Schweitzer
...while there is such a thing as correctness in ethics, in interpretation, in mathematics, the way to understand that is not by trying to model… — Hilary Putnam
[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.... — Immanuel Kant
I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology. — Thomas Nagel
equally real at all stages of his life; specifically, the fact that a particular stage is present cannot be regarded as conferring on it any… — Thomas Nagel
To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for a single theory of how… — Thomas Nagel
A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible. — Thomas Nagel
I do not see why the axiom of Prudence should not be questioned, when it conflicts with present inclination, on a ground similar to that… — Henry Sidgwick
A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will. — Thomas Nagel
The inclusion of consequences in the conception of what we have done is an acknowledgement that we are parts of the world, but the paradoxical… — Thomas Nagel
Once we see an aspect of what we or someone else does as something that happens, we lose our grip on the idea that it… — Thomas Nagel
The external view [of agency] forces itself on us at the same time that we resist it. One way this occurs is through the gradual… — Thomas Nagel
What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arms goes up from the fact that I raise my arm? — Ludwig Wittgenstein
...once the cards are dealt we turn them up in turn, and make two piles each, one red, one black; the winner has the biggest… — G. E. M. Anscombe

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