Character Quote by John Carroll

Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar…

— George Santayana

“Even though there is neither much altruism nor equality in the world, there is almost universal endorsement of the values of altruism and equality…

— Brian Leiter

I have a general moral: great philosophers may be great, but that is not a reason to follow them. Don't be a follower. Work…

— Tim Crane

His system of morality was the most benevolent and sublime probably that has been ever taught, and consequently more perfect than those of any…

— Thomas Jefferson

What [Nietzsche] calls slave morality is to him purely spite-morality; and this spite-morality gave new names to all ideals. Thus impotence, which offers no…

— Georg Brandes

You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.

— Anonymous

A moral person is one who constantly exercises, and acts on, his best rational judgment.

— Barbara Branden

I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the…

— Oscar Wilde

He was as great as a man can be without morality.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Man has a single basic choice: to think or not, and that is the gauge of his virtue. Moral perfection is an unbreached rationality-not…

— Ayn Rand

“[Dostoyevsky] eloquently proves that heartless ideas are often a source of immorality: they bring with them destructiveness, hatred, cynicism, and misanthropy. The novelist also…

— George L. Kline

Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.

— Reinhold Niebuhr