Character Quote by William James

I'm a subjectivist about morality.

— Dale Jamieson

It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity.

— Maurice Barres

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

— Robert Pirsig

There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.

— Woodrow Wilson

As human beings we are all the same. We have this marvelous intelligence, which sometimes creates problems for us, but when influenced by warm-heartedness…

— Dalai Lama

“Subjectivism maintains that there are no objective moral truths.”

— David Edmonds

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

Some empirical feelings, such as sympathy, are indispensable parts of certain moral virtues.

— Allen W. Wood

moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It's also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged to force…

— Barbara Holland

“as well as over potentially ennobling or morally beatific states like sympathy, melancholia, and shame (the emotions given the most attention in literary criticism’s…

— Sianne Ngai

. . . as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe…

— Immanuel Kant

One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.

— Marcel Proust