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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.
Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine read more
Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.
When the sun comes up, I have morals again.
When the sun comes up, I have morals again.
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.
Rough Johnson, the great moralist.
Rough Johnson, the great moralist.
Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.
Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.
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
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one
of its periodical fits of morality.
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one
of its periodical fits of morality.
All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.