Character Quote by Pascal Boyer Download Open image “[R]eligious concepts are parasitic upon moral intuitions.” — Pascal Boyer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Concepts Inspirational Intuition Moral Nihilism
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 Copy Share Image
“Morals can't function normally because morals have been declared intellectually illegal by the subject object metaphysics that dominates present social thought” — Robert Pirsig Copy Share Image
Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Morality itself requires transcendence, the existence of a “real” goodness.” — James W Sire Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The temptation to moralize is strong; it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
“the existence of the moral sense is a signal that there is an ought, something other than, and transcendent over, what is. We will… — James W Sire Copy Share Image
A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“There is a Moral sense, and there is an Immoral Sense. History shows us that the Moral Sense enables us to perceive morality and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The fundamentalist violence is, so is it, an attempt to increase the stakes, i.e. to discourage the potential desertions by showing that defection will… — Pascal Boyer Copy Share Image
“What we mean when we say that something is "cultural" is that it is roughly similar to what we find in other members of… — Pascal Boyer Copy Share Image
“[T]he choice of human groupings for cultural comparisons is not a natural or scientific choice, but a political one.” — Pascal Boyer Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
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