The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned

Be he the first to stand or the last, a man must stand,” the father had told his adoring son. “And if there is only one man, then that man must stand alone.” ~Thomas to...

In fact the “mask” theme has come up several times in my background reading. Richard Sennett, for example, in “The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism”, and Robert Jackall,...

If I am disobeying orders, I’d rather be with God against men than with men against God.

It is only when one is under extreme duress that one’s true character is revealed.

If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing what’s right.

Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.

Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations – a technique that the Israelis use with some frequency – without ever reaching anything approaching consensus.

Man is more perfect than god. Although this woman’s doctrine, in which she was brought up from childhood, told her than all men were lost sinners, I have never heard her censure a man with...

One thing, Ms. Gray, is forgotten by this tragedy: the embryo is human, not a nonhuman as the Supreme Court declared. Abortion never was about the poor or about women’s rights. It’s an ideology with...

Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this kind of virtue has not been outlived even today. A kind of sturdy...

Existential depression has always annoyed me; it is one of the world’s most pointless forms of suffering.

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.

I should say that there ought to be no war except religious war. If war is irreligious, it is immoral. No man ought ever to fight at all unless he is prepared to put his...

[The Truth Seeker is] Devoted to: science, morals, free thought, free discussions, liberalism, sexual equality, labor reform, progression, free education and whatever tends to elevate and emancipate the human race.Opposed to: priestcraft, ecclesiasticism, dogmas, creeds,...

The character of God is an unchanging Northstar five which to find our way through a world of moral complexity.

Integrity is not just a smart and moral way to navigate your personal life. It’s also part of your professional branding, and it will inevitably affect your business success.

Understanding the simple fact that morality differs around the world, and even within societies, is the first step toward understanding your righteous mind.

If we are defined by reason and morality, then reason and morality must define our choices, even when animals are concerned. When people say, for example, that they like their veal or hot dogs too...

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.

And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.

We have laws in our country that tell us not to murder or steal and we have police that enforce them. The question is whether you personally need the police to watch you. If they...

According to Adam One, the Fall of Man was multidimensional. The ancestral primates fell out of the trees; then they fell from vegetarianism into meat-eating. Then they fell from instinct into reason, and thus into...

All lines are gray in the dark.

If you study a historical episode and feel good about it, it probably means that you haven’t had it explained very well. Historical conflict is usually the struggle of different conceptions of what is good.

… ohne den Menschen etwas vorschreiben zu dürfen, würde die Moral gar kein Vergnügen bereiten.

The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.

Oh, what darkness does great prosperity cast over our minds!

for that men have been good does not suffice for them to continue being good, unless one cares about it to the end.

Wir lernen aus unserer eigenen Geschichte, wozu der Mensch fähig ist. Deshalb dürfen wir uns nicht einbilden, wir seien nun als Menschen anders und besser geworden. Es gibt keine endgültig errungene moralische Vollkommenheit – für...

The reason many are loathe to acknowledge the possibility of absolute truth is not simply because they do not wish to accept the possibility of the existence of an all-powerful, all-knowing deity. It is because...

[O]ne person’s ‘barbarian’ is another person’s ‘just doing what everybody else is doing.

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

It took a couple of months before we were both convinced there were no rules about sexual activities in Hell and our spouses were not going to show up out of the blue. It was...

There is a danger there – a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to...

What is morality, she asked.Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any...

If humanism were right in declaring that man is born to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since his body is doomed to die, his task on earth evidently must be of...

Sometimes carrying the burden of an upsetting truth, and hiding it, is actually a gift you give to someone else. You bear that burden, so they don’t have to, in a situation where telling them...

Believe me…Nothing is bad or wrong , just prove it as right

Every act intends some good.

You never require a teacher to lead you into the wrong path, but you do require a kindly word to conduct you aright.

Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else; it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire...

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more I will respect myself. I will keep the law given by God; sanctioned by man. I will hold the principles received by me...

A crime is born in the gap between the morality of society and that of the individual.

In truth, there are no good people. There are only the decisions we make and the circumstances we live in.

Moral codes are like the ocean. Some people live by them, while others, such as myself, would rather live by a lake.

consciousness,” their most impoverished and error-prone organ! I believe that on earth there has never been such a feeling of misery, such a leaden discomfort—while at the same time those old instincts had not all...

America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance — it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not...

A culture capable of imagining complexly is a humble culture. It acts, when it has to act, as late in the game as possibl, and as cautiously, because it knows its girth and the tight...

A system of justice does not need to pursue retribution. If the purpose of drug sentencing is to prevent harm, all we need to do is decide what to do with people who pose a...