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Morality Quotes by Sam Harris
- I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in any deep sense…
- Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But, clearly, there…
- It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
- The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.
- We read the Golden Rule and judge it to be a brilliant distillation of many of our ethical impulses. And then we come across another…
- We can either have a twenty-first-century conversation about morality and the human well-being - a conversation in which we avail ourselves of all scientific insights…
- Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see tht there is no such thing as Christian or…
- Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds - and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of well-being…
- There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some…
- There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of…
- Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness…
More Morality Quotes
- [Our goal] is to help revive America's traditional values: faith, family, neighborhood, work and freedom. Government has no business enforcing these values… — Ronald Reagan
- We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. — Jane Austen
- Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to… — Ayn Rand
- Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. — Marcus Aurelius
- Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. — John Adams
- The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer