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#morality

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #morality




In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities, but are continually trading places. A good may be transformed into an evil in the next second. And vice versa. Such was the way of the world that Dostoevsky depicted in The Brothers Karamazov. The most important thing is to maintain the balance between the constantly moving good and evil. If you lean too much in either direction, it becomes difficult to maintain actual morals. Indeed, balance itself is the good.


Haruki Murakami


#balance

The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart. Meanwhile, the lot of widows and homeless children is very hard, and it is to their defense, not God's, that the self-righteous should rush.


Yann Martel


#morality #life

If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and worse ways to secure it, then some cultures will tend to produce lives that are more worth living than others; some political persuasions will be more enlightened than others; and some world views will be mistaken in ways that cause needless human misery.


Sam Harris


#neuroscience #well-being #science

Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost.


Richard von Krafft-Ebing


#gender #homosexuality #lesbianism #morality #nature

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 them, if you must make at all. The only imperative that nature utters is, 'Look. Listen. Attend.


C.S. Lewis


#morals #nature #love

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules


Albert Camus


#morality #ethics

On the average, only those prisoners could keep alive who, after years of trekking from camp to camp, had lost all scruples in their fight for existence; they were prepared to use every means, honest and otherwise, even brutal force, theft, and betrayal of their friends, in order to save themselves. We who have come back, by the aid of many lucky chances or miracles - whatever one may choose to call them - we know: the best of us did not return.


Viktor E. Frankl


#honor #morality #sacrifice #survival #war

Moral grounds are always the last refuge of people who have no sense of beauty.


Oscar Wilde


#morality #beauty

You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.


Jim Butcher


#good #good-and-evil #humor #morality #humor

But she was not even grateful to him for it; nothing good on Pierre's part seemed to her to be an effort, it seemed so natural for him to be kind to everyone that there was no merit in his kindness.


Leo Tolstoy


#love #merit #morality #love






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