Morality Quotes - Page 27

You're trying to be tricky. What's morality?" "It's the difference between what's right and what you can rationalize." "Must be a human thing." "Exactly.

Religion gets its morality from us. We don't get our morality from religion.

History is a tragegy, not a morality tale.

Religion is not just incongruent with morality, but in essential ways incompatible with it.

Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant!

[Albert Camus] was viewed by many as an austere moralist, but it was on the football pitch and in the theatre that he learnt his 'morality'. It's something sensed, it won't pass uniquely through thought. It couldn't possibly.

He could smell her morality, the sweet rot of corruption

That's what I mean by "Western morality," is the lack of morality. There is none. People are out for themselves, and they'll stab you in the back.

Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.

Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.

The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.

There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft.

I've no objection to morality, except that it's obsolete.

The nature of morality must be considered, and preferably before one is exposed to situations where a moral decision is required.

Morality is a personal matter.

Real morality is based on a single criterion: right action, appropriate action, in the present moment and present situation.

Morality has nothing in common with politics.

Our true dignity consists — in thought. Thence we must derive our elevation, not from space or duration. Let us endeavor then to think well; this is the principle of morals.

True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality; that is to say, the morality of the judgment, which has no rules, makes light of the morality of the intellect.... To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

True eloquence makes light of eloquence. True morality makes light of morality.

Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality

For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy

First the pork chops, then morality

Morality is not a large, constructed *thing* you have or have not, but simply a capacity. Something you carry with you in your brain and in your hands.