Michael Shermer Quotes about Morality

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Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

Michael Shermer

Motivational, Stories, Morality

Michael Shermer (2016). “Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye”, p.111, Henry Holt and Company

Absolute morality leads logically to absolute intolerance.

Michael Shermer

Morality, Intolerance, Absolutes

My thesis is that morality exists outside the human mind in the sense of being not just a trait of individual humans, but a human trait; that is, a human universal.

Michael Shermer

Mind, Morality, Individual

Michael Shermer (2005). “The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule”, p.51, Macmillan