Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are. —John Ruskin More about this quote Tags: morality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. —James A. Froude More about this quote Tags: morality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: morality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: morality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Morality is herd instinct in the individual. —Friedrich Nietzsche More about this quote Tags: morality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Tags: morality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Tags: morality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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. —Albert Schweitzer More about this quote Tags: morality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. —Kahlil Gibran More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction! —Abraham Lincoln More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing. —William Barclay More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I like the snot to run a little, the tears to accumulate a bit before I reach for the handkerchief. Then I know I'm really crying. Crying just isn't crying unless it's messy. —D.H. Mondfleur More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Many people feel guilty about things they shouldn't feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about. —Sydney J. Harris More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive. —James Baldwin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. —Andrew Harvey More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email