Character Quote by Herbert Spencer

Ultimately a highly complex sentiment, having its first origin in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our fellow-men, ruled by reason,…

— Charles Darwin

Some empirical feelings, such as sympathy, are indispensable parts of certain moral virtues.

— Allen W. Wood

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving…

— Charles Darwin

An individual can be truly moral only when they are their own master. From the moment when they awaken to a comprehension of that…

— Elisee Reclus

Conscience is the moralized form of self-absorption.

— Mason Cooley

“The co-called moral compass is a part of the human cognition, and when that compass comes into action through human behavior, it turns an…

— Abhijit Naskar

The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The moral sense, or conscience, is as much a part of man as his leg or arm. It is given to all human beings…

— Thomas Jefferson

The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies.

— George Santayana

. . . as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe…

— Immanuel Kant

The main experiential determinants of moral development seem to be amount and variety of social experience, the opportunity to take a number of roles…

— Lawrence Kohlberg

To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions.

— Mahatma Gandhi