Morality Quotes

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There is nothing divine about morality; it is a purely human affair. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward,… — Albert Einstein
All phenomena link together in a mutually conditioning network. — Gautama Buddha
Though One Brahman is the Cause of the Many. ... Behold but One in all things it is the second that leads you astray. — Kabir
Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe. .. We should not say 'I am an Athenian' or 'I am a Roman' but… — Marcus Aurelius
So long as people do not consider all men as their brothers and do not consider human life as the most sacred thing, which rather… — Leo Tolstoy
My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life in the presence… — Mahatma Gandhi
We have to treat others as part of who we are, rather than as a 'them' with whom we are in constant competition. — Robert Neelly Bellah
What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess. — Derek Freeman
.. the voice of nature and experience seems plainly to oppose the selfish theory. — David Hume
It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events. — David Hume
There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived from Reason, or… — David Hume
Truth is disputable; not taste: what exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what each man feels within himself is… — David Hume
These arguments on each side (and many more might be produced) are so plausible, that I am apt to suspect, they may, the one as… — David Hume
.. that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say, that this final… — David Hume
But in many orders of beauty, particularly those of the finer arts, it is requisite to employ much reasoning, in order to feel the proper… — David Hume
We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be amply insisted on,… — David Hume
In all determinations of morality, this circumstance of public utility is ever principally in view; and wherever disputes arise, either in philosophy or common life,… — David Hume
He sees such a desperate rapaciousness prevail; such a disregard to equity, such contempt of order, such stupid blindness to future consequences, as must immediately… — David Hume
.. that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive. — David Hume
But, historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they are really, at bottom, impracticable;… — David Hume

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