It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare

It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare

Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens,
and found them both sublime. On the read more

Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens,
and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we
should rather compare it to the protective blotches on a beetle's
back, and find them both ingenious.

Idealist: a cynic in the making.

Idealist: a cynic in the making.

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is read more

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Obscenity is in the crotch of the beholder.

Obscenity is in the crotch of the beholder.

I'm one of the undeserving poor . . . up ugen middle-class
morality all the time . . . read more

I'm one of the undeserving poor . . . up ugen middle-class
morality all the time . . . . What is middle-class morality?
Just an excuse for never giving me anything.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy read more

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

The Bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.

The Bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.