Character Quote by Pascal Boyer

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

“Morals can't function normally because morals have been declared intellectually illegal by the subject object metaphysics that dominates present social thought”

— Robert Pirsig

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

The test of moral ideas is moral results.

— Morton Blackwell

“Morality itself requires transcendence, the existence of a “real” goodness.”

— James W Sire

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

“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

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

Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

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

“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