Beings Quote by Paul Bloom

“There are no shortcuts to moral insight. Nature is not intrinsically anything that can offer comfort or solace in human terms -- if only…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Morality is an evolutionary adaption for any sentient species. Our survival is promoted by working together, and any group requires a moral code to…

— Jasper T. Scott

I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon.

— Tom Stoppard

To be moral is to discover fundamentally ones own being.

— Simone de Beauvoir

There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of.

— Joseph Butler

Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

— Aristotle

Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral.

— Thomas Sowell

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

— Christopher Hitchens

“Evolution, therefore, cannot account for the origin of our moral feelings, let alone for the fact that we all believe there are external moral…

— Timothy J. Keller

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception,…

— Aristotle

Mankind has many things that it never knew before. What I can tell you is that human moral values are no longer good.

— Li Hongzhi

Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.

— Winston Churchill