Believe Quote by Marjorie Grene

Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling.

— Valdemar W Setzer

Ethics is not about the way things are, it is about the way things ought to be.

— Michael Josephson

Philosophers need not much use the word 'intuition' or the concept of intuition, except when they happen to be working on the epistemology of…

— Ernest Sosa

“philosopher has given a rational, objectively demonstrable, scientific answer to the question of why man needs a code of values. So long as that…

— Ayn Rand

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

— Corliss Lamont

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

— Albert Schweitzer

Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle.

— Darby Conley

Philosophers do need to have intuitions of various specific sorts: ethical, metaphysical, etc., depending on their targeted subject matter. And they must make intuition…

— Ernest Sosa

I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect…

— Peter Singer

“Ethics is not a mystic fantasy--nor a social convention--nor a dispensable, subjective luxury...Ethics is an objective necessity of man's survival--not by the grace of…

— Ayn Rand

Ethics is not just an abstract intellectual discipline. It is about the conflicts that arise in trying to meet real human needs and values.

— John Ziman

Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining,…

— Albert Schweitzer