1,889 Quotes About Morality

Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it. Reason is the faculty that perceives, identifies and integrates the material provided by his senses. The task of his senses is to give him the evidence of existence, but the task of identifying it belongs to his reason, his senses tell him only that something is, but what it is must be learned by his mind.

Ignorance is the only possible happiness this world has to offer

An educated, healthy & confident nation is harder to govern

The notion that human life has greater value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and arrogant.

Morality does not come to this mortal world from some imaginary paradise. It rises from the neurons of mortal humans.

My paper was a direct discussion and comparison of half-a-dozen ethical systems, concentrating on what seemed to me to be their flaws. I finished by saying that it struck me that all the ethical systems I was discussing were after the fact. That is, that people act as they are disposed to, but they like to feel afterwards that they were *right* and so they invent systems that approve of their dispositions

I think moralistic science is bad for morals and bad for science.

Morally it may be better to not kill any creature for their flesh, but biologically, meat was one of the greatest factors involved in the rise of the psychology of thinking humanity.

Betrayal is the most powerful poisonous tool which permanently destroys the bonds of your friends or family members. Therefore, true bonds of your friends or family members can never get recovered again or will not remain the same because you purposely have broken your true commitment with them.