Ethics Quote by Matthew Arnold Download Open image “Religion is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling” — Matthew Arnold ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ethics Feelings Lit Philosophy Religion
Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
....religion may be best be described as an emotion resting on a conviction of a harmony between ourselves and the universe at large. — J. M. E. McTaggart Copy Share Image
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The essence of the religious emotions consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence. — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
Religion is something infinitely simple, ingenuous. It is not knowledge, not content of feeling... it is not duty and not renunciation, it is not… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“psychological sense of spirituality is a feeling of union and transcendence, motivated by compassion, awe, or joy.” — Steven Stosny Copy Share Image
It is in the area of feeling that religion enters the heart and is expressed by man. — Edgar Magnin Copy Share Image
Refined religion is aimed at realizing ethical values, including the fostering of human lives and human communities. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence. — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
“One of the most pernicious effects of religion is that it tends to divorce morality from the reality of human and animal suffering. Religion… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human happiness. And… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
We must hold fast to the austere but true doctrine as to what really governs politics and saves or destroys states. Having in mind… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“Culture is the endeavour to know the best and to make this knowledge prevail for the good of all humankind.” — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too! — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things. — Syd Copy Share Image
Records, radio, television, movies, magazines-all are monopolized by the money managers who are guided by one ethic, the words wealth and power. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Making money doesn't oblige people to forfeit their honor or their conscience. — Guy de Rothschild Copy Share Image
“If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.” — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me. — Roger Spottiswoode Copy Share Image
