Character Quote by Immanuel Kant

All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“unless there is a telos which transcends the limited goods of practices by constituting the good of a whole human life, the good of…

— Alasdair MacIntyre

“In the same way, any ethical system which aspires to be true ethics and to bear a normative and teleological character, not falling into…

— Herman Bavinck

“There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“From the study of the development of human intelligence, in all directions, and through all times, the discovery arises of a great fundamental law,…

— Auguste Comte

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is a very real evil consequent on ascribing supernatural origin to the received maxilms of morality. That origin consecrates the whole of them…

— John Stuart Mill

Belief, thus, in the supernatural, great as are the services which it rendered in the early stages of human development, cannot be considered to…

— John Stuart Mill

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

To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common…

— Baron d'Holbach

Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically…

— Auberon Herbert

Whatever efforts one may make, one must revert to the realization that religion is the real basis of morality; religion is the real and…

— Madame de Stael