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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that read more
Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good ;consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.
No mere man since the Fall, is able in this life perfectly to
keep the Commandments.
No mere man since the Fall, is able in this life perfectly to
keep the Commandments.
To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.
To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.
A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will read more
A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning,--an
endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea 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.
Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.
Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.
Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.
Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a read more
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.
