Discovering Quote by Philip Kitcher

Originally, ethics has no existence apart from religion, which holds it in solution.

— Herbert Spencer

Meaningful truths are never newly discovered; they're just uncovered anew.

— Malcolm Forbes

Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.

— Anton Chekhov

The truths of life are not discovered by us. At moments unforeseen, some gracious influence descends upon the soul, touching it to an emotion…

— George Gissing

There is no single test or formula for producing moral progress anymore than there is for generating scientific truths. It is a process involving…

— Catherine Wilson

I take the ethical truths to be the stable elements that emerge out of ethical progress and that are retained under further ethical progress.

— Philip Kitcher

You must question a code of ethics that never impedes your progress.

— Robert Breault

No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.

— Albert Camus

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

— Albert Camus

There is always need of persons not only to discover new truths, and point out when what were once truths are true no longer,…

— John Stuart Mill

Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult…

— John Berger

It is possible to believe in progress as a fact without believing in progress as an ethical principle; but in the catechism of many…

— Norbert Wiener