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Moral Quotes by William James
- I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which,…
- I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that…
- The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
- What do believers in the Absolute mean by saving that their belief affords them comfort? They mean that since in the Absolute finite evil is…
- Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly…
More Moral Quotes
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
- Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. — Kate Atkinson
- It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species. — David Attenborough
- Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture. — Michele Bachmann
- It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. — Francis Bacon