Top 100 Quotes About Morality Philosophy
#1. Follow your own morality but never forget to be kind. Kindness is always better than morality.
Debasish Mridha
#2. For it is the business of Ethics, I must insist, not only to obtain true results, but also to find valid reasons for them.
G.E. Moore
#3. Morality can provide at most only a severely limited and insufficient answer to the question of how a person should live.
Harry G. Frankfurt
#4. If 10 percent of the population were to take a consciously ethical outlook on life and act accordingly, the resulting change would be more significant than any change of government,
Peter Singer
#5. This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero.
Ayn Rand
#6. The best way to destroy the decrepit is to build the glorious.
Stefan Molyneux
#7. Whether morality is moral is an open question.
R.N. Prasher
#8. Egoism holds, therefore, is that each man's happiness is the sole good--that a number of different things are each of them the only good thing there is--an absolute contradiction! No more complete and thorough refutation of any theory could be desired.
G.E. Moore
#10. Morality is totally God's standard, and his standards and conditions are revealed to us through his written word, the Scriptures (The Bible).
Reid A. Ashbaucher
#11. Improving the world can be a nasty and ugly and difficult and dangerous business ... because when you improve the world, you threaten the entrenched interests of evil people.
Stefan Molyneux
#12. Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#13. Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, are things Christ unsparingly condemned. Destitute of fire, they are nothing more than a godless philosophy, an ethical system, and a superstition.
Samuel Chadwick
#14. When people start talking about Right and Left, they stop talking about right and wrong.
J.S.B. Morse
#15. A decent life, even a short life, will always be far better than an exceptionally long life lived in ruin.
Steven J. Carroll
#16. You think you're superior to the others, don't you? We'll you're not. In fact you're worse for mistaking basic human decency for moral superiority.
Nenia Campbell
#17. In a truly moral society, most of our current laws would not exist.
Michel Templet
#18. He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.
The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.
Kahlil Gibran
#19. As you say of yourself, I too am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.
[Letter to William Short, 31 October 1819]
Thomas Jefferson
#20. The divine element manifests itself (or show up) in man as well by his aptitude for science, than by his aptitude for virtue. True morality, true philosophy and true art are in their essence ("dans leur essence", Fr.) religious.
African Spir
#21. Morality does not come to this mortal world from some imaginary paradise. It rises from the neurons of mortal humans.
Abhijit Naskar
#22. Morality without kindness and compassion is very dangerous.
Debasish Mridha
#24. Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification.
Ayn Rand
#25. The state of a moral man, is one of tranquillity and peace; the state of an immoral man is one of perpetual unrest.
Marquis De Sade
#26. There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of morality.
Sam Harris
#27. There is a morality of reason, a morality proper to man, and Man's Life is its standard of value.
All that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; all that which destroys it is the evil.
Ayn Rand
#28. Morality is good when we use it to live our lives but not to hurt anyone.
Debasish Mridha
#29. Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.
Ayn Rand
#30. I question the moral integrity of anyone who says they have no regrets.
Michel Templet
#31. Be your own master, and look at things as a man, as a human being, as a citizen, as a mortal creature.
Marcus Aurelius
#32. ...the one certain thing in life is that no one can make the truth untrue simply because it hurts.
David Weber
#33. Above all else, above the mechanics, even, a doctor should be thoroughly grounded in morality.
M.R. Graham
#34. Wisdom is the essence of education. Kindness is the essence of morality.
Debasish Mridha
#35. Anatomy lab, in the end, becomes less a violation of the sacred and more something that interferes with happy hour, and that realization discomfits. In our rare reflective moments, we were all silently apologizing to our cadavers, not because we sensed the transgression but because we did not.
Paul Kalanithi
#36. We measure morality by what happens. Not what is intended.
Dennis Prager
#37. A philosopher is someone who promotes moral excellence, argues for moral excellence, and gets other people to behave morally and excellently based on those arguments.
Stefan Molyneux
#38. Man's life is the standard of morality, but your own life is its purpose . If existence on earth is your goal, you must choose your actions and values by the standard of that which is proper to man - for the purpose of preserving, fulfilling and enjoying the irreplaceable value which is your life.
Ayn Rand
#39. Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.
Stefan Molyneux
#41. The anti-mind is the anti-life.
Ayn Rand
#42. ...if good is defined as something else, it is then impossible either to prove that any other definition is wrong or even to deny such definition.
G.E. Moore
#43. You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality which you misunderstood: but you wereable to destroy only yourself.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#44. By telling lie you can hide the truth, but u can't reject it.
Munendra Dwivedi
#45. Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview.
Nancy Pearcey
#46. But the Dark cannot claim what Light does not surrender.
C.L. Wilson
#47. A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.
Mencius
#48. There is no justice in the laws of nature, no term for fairness in the equations of motion. The Universe is neither evil, nor good, it simply does not care. The stars don't care, or the Sun, or the sky.
But they don't have to! WE care! There IS light in the world, and it is US!
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#49. Two wrongs' create an additional problem.
'A wrong' plus 'A right' creates a remorse.
'Two rights' create a solution.
Emmanuel Aghado
#50. The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be booted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle.
John Stuart Mill
#51. When we teach people that suspending moral judgments is a virtue, the necessary outcome is moral horror.
Peter Boghossian
#52. There's a saying that you can't put a price on a human life, but that saying is a lie because we have. We have, and it's so much lower than you would think. Yes, human life has its price like anything else, and will continue to do so for as long as it doubles as a commodity.
Nenia Campbell
#53. Across the board ... Not junkies or freaks, but people who were just as comfortable with drugs like weed, booze, or coke as we are - and we're not weird, are we? Hell no, we're just overworked professionals who need to relax now and then, have a bit of the whoop and the giggle, right?
Hunter S. Thompson
#54. Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
Ayn Rand
#55. Rights can be considered wrongs, depending on who is judging.
Suzy Kassem
#57. Find out the difference between ethics and morality, but never forget to be kind.
Debasish Mridha
#58. Western philosophy, then, is not an extended debate about knowledge, ethics, and reality, but a succession of conceptual metaphors. Descartes's philosophy is based on KNOWING IS SEEING, Locke's on the MIND IS A CONTAINER, Kant's on MORALITY IS A STRICT FATHER, and so on.
Steven Pinker
#59. Since life requires a specific course of action, any other course will destroy it. A being who does not hold his own life as the motive and goal of his actions, is acting on the motive and standard of death.
Ayn Rand
#60. Religion, when realized truly, can provide an extremely accurate moral compass to the human conscience, while politics on the other hand, when utilized properly can ensure the wellbeing of the society.
Abhijit Naskar
#61. Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.
Immanuel Kant
#62. Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.
Aldous Huxley
#63. Every means hitherto employed with the intention of making mankind moral has been thoroughly immoral.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#64. Subjugation requires vigilance; if you relax your brutality even for a moment, the people you're oppressing will revolt at the first sign of weakness. That's why dictatorial regimes are always a slippery slope of cruelty doomed to end in failure.
Nenia Campbell
#65. The morality of a society is often dangerous and very unethical.
Debasish Mridha
#66. Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.
Ayn Rand
#67. We have to get over the idea that there's some right way to live.
Marty Rubin
#69. A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Right or Wrong?
Ayn Rand
#70. The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.
Ayn Rand
#71. What was it about us, as humans, that drove us to make apologies for beautiful things?
Nenia Campbell
#72. Morality often manifests itself as cruelty, So be very kind before you are moral.
Debasish Mridha
#73. If morality represents how people would like the world to work, then economics shows how it actually does work.
Steven D. Levitt
#74. The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense. Actually, the three philosophies are barely distinguishable ...
George Orwell
#75. Reality is that which exists; the unreal does not exist; the unreal is merely that negation of existence which is the content of a human consciousness when it attempts to abandon reason. Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.
Ayn Rand
#77. Life is a process of self-sustaining and self-generated action. If an organism fails in that action, it dies...It is only the concept of 'Life' that makes the concept of 'Value' possible. It is only to a living entity that things can be good or evil.
Ayn Rand
#78. Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
Ambrose Bierce
#79. It occurred to him that his scarcely perceptible attempts to struggle against what was considered good by the most highly placed people, those scarcely noticeable impulses which he had immediately suppressed, might have been the real thing, and all the rest false.
Leo Tolstoy
#80. I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go .
John Stuart Mill
#81. Force is a physical power; I do not see how its effects could produce morality. To yield to force is an act of necessity, not of will; it is at best an act of prudence. In what sense can it be a moral duty?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#82. To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.
Ayn Rand
#83. Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything.
Fulton J. Sheen
#84. I found it challenging to give her an accurate account of his odd humanity, his unique philosophy, and his uncentred morality
Haruki Murakami
#85. It is only when one is under extreme duress that one's true character is revealed.
Christopher Earle
#86. In silence, an act is an act is an act. Verbalized and discussed, it becomes an ethical problem ...
Aldous Huxley
#87. Christianity is at its purest a philosophy about a person, Jesus Christ, and at its dirtiest a philosophy about requirements and law.
Criss Jami
#89. The sign of a good conscience is for a man to be in support of basically everything that Westboro Baptist isn't.
Luke Myer
#91. The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned
Antonio Gramsci
#92. I don't want to become like him. Become one of those people who believe it's okay to do anything to anyone if it achieves the 'right' end.
Lisa M. Lilly
#93. A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
William Winwood Reade
#94. Evil ethicists are the holocaust of humanity; if philosophy can be the instant sunlight to their endless vampirism, it will save more lives than all the doctors who have ever lived.
Stefan Molyneux
#95. Killing a pig for a good old fry-up is one thing. But there's no excuse for being cruel, even if you're a bored teenage kid.
Ozzy Osbourne
#96. Morality is societal, but kindness is universal. Be kind even if it not always ethical.
Debasish Mridha
#98. If I had to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages and ninety-nine would be blank. On the last page I should write: I recognize only one duty, and that is to love.
Albert Camus
#99. Man created Guilt. Guilt is the Perpetual Engine that Drives the World.
Vineet Raj Kapoor
#100. Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
Immanuel Kant
