417 quotes found
“While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at you. Make what you can of t...”
“...[N]ature generally in the distribution of her capacities has adapted the means to the end... [so nature's] true destination must be to produce a will, not merely good as a means to something els...”
“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”
“The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned”
“A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.”
“Dove la moralit troppo forte l'intelletto perisce.”
“Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong.”
“My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unsta...”
“War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace." - Baba”
“Even in war there should be lines you didn't cross.”
“Hitherto, the rights and wrongs had seemed so beautifully simple.”
“On armageddon day,' Sandy said, 'both armies will think they fight for good. And both of them will be wrong.”
“We could unleash all this technology at once. You can imagine what would happen then. But that's not the interesting thing." "What is the interesting thing?" "The interesting thing is that we have ...”
“Practical wisdom," Aristotle told us, "is the combination of moral will and moral skill.”
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.I'll meet you there.”
“It is not for a man to put himself in such an attitude to society, but to maintain himself in whatever attitude he find himself through obedience to the laws of his being, which will never be one o...”
“It's like the frog that tried to outdo the cow...see, the consequences are reflected in each of us as individuals. A people so oppressed by the West have no mental leisure, they can't do anything w...”
“A man who does not question his own judgment, society, and who flourishes between deceit and bewilderment, fails his moral responsibility as a rational being.”
“In fine, that it is not enough to be good, without behaving in such a manner as shall make others acknowledge us to be so.”
“All decisions weve come to accept as right or wrong are ingrained in us from the society in which we abide. Rights and wrongs are not universally known or transferable.”
