Morality Quotes - Page 12

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

All true religion must stand on true morality.

The so-called new morality is too often the old immorality condoned.

Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality.

What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.

There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.

There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?

Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods).

The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us--and so, what has kept it going up to now--lies in everyone's right, without lengthy investigation, to praise and blame. And who could endure life without praising and blaming!

An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.

When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.

La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality

Morality and legality have nothing to do with one another.

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

Custom alone regulates morals.

Only a moral education based on free inner discipline can bring to bear a salutary action and lead to a true morality.

Posterity has never made the grave's embrace less cruel. It simply assuages our fear of death, because there is no better cure for out inevitable morality then the illusion of a beautiful eternity. But there is one illusion I still hold dear: that is the thought of an enlightened nation. That is the only future I still dream of.

The vital energies regulate themselves naturally without compulsive duty or compulsive morality both of which are sure signs of existing antisocial impulses.

Modesty is the proof that morality is sexy.

Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.

Study, analyse the social structure - that's always far more effective than moralising.