Bodily functions Quote by Peter Singer

“Those who think that modern times are wickeder than previous times are apt to identify the cause as the weakening of a sense of…

— A.C. Grayling

Ultimately a highly complex sentiment, having its first origin in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our fellow-men, ruled by reason,…

— Charles Darwin

Our conceptions of morality, as all our other ideas, pass through a course of development; the difficulty comes in adjusting our conduct, which has…

— Jane Addams

“What we now call "morality" was evolved – as nearly all social and physical human attributes were – to aid us in survival and,…

— David G. McAfee

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

Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a superfluity of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm very interested in why we do good things, or bad things, and where moral judgments come from.

— Paul Bloom

The moral, then, is that familiar categories of behavior - marriage customs, food taboos, folk superstitions, and so on - certainly do vary across…

— Steven Pinker

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

— Tom Stoppard

We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance - or, sadly, degrade - this innate moral sense.

— Paul Bloom

It is demonstrable and observable that our morals are based on our earliest spiritual beliefs. Matters of the Mind in no small measure have…

— Neale Donald Walsch