Abstraction Quote by Catherine Camus

[Albert Camus] was viewed by many as an austere moralist, but it was on the football pitch and in the theatre that he learnt…

— Catherine Camus

Modern morality is all about perception.

— Rachel Cusk

“For him morality was neither conformism nor philosophic wisdom, but living the infinite fullness of possibilities. He believed in morality’s capacity for intensification, in…

— Robert Musil

“Morality existed only in action. It arose out of action: was formed and tested in action: expressed itself in action. That was why we…

— Anonymous

All the particular moral judgments we intuitively make are likely to derive from discarded religious systems, from warped views of sex and bodily functions,…

— Peter Singer

Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.

— C. S. Lewis

In ancient times, any man rising up above the common people tried to shape his life according to his principles; it is no longer…

— African Spir

Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

— Blaise Pascal

“Morality came before religion, and religion was our ancestors' way of responding to that built-in need. And if that was so, then it was…

— Salman Rushdie

“The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions,” he wrote a Brooklyn minister. “Our inner balance and even our…

— Walter Isaacson

A great sense of morality was instilled in me through my upbringing in the Catholic faith - particularly because my father is a moral…

— David Lowery

Morality is like a field of flowers beneath which the corpses are piled in a thousand layers. It is an evolved mechanism whereby the…

— Roger Scruton