#ethics

May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right. ↗

— Peter Marshall

#freedom #inspirational #morality #united-states-of-america #freedom

I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#politics #men

What if our better nature wasn't better after all? But was instead, well, just nature? ↗

— Kevin Dutton

#nature

You honor yourself by acting with dignity and composure. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#culture #education #ethics #inspiration #meditation

I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain. ↗

— René Descartes

#logic #metaphysics #ontology #philosophy #psychology

If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong to it. ~(Camus, as quoted by Tony Judt) ↗

— Albert Camus

#ethics #philosophy #tony-judt #ethics

I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#nietzsche #ethics

Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others. ↗

— Jostein Gaarder

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Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#ethics #peace #vegetarianism #ethics

How do you feel about helicopters?" There was a long pause. "How do you mean? Ethically?" "As a mode of transportation." "Faster than camels, but less sustainable. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#blue #helicopters #lol #ethics