Philosophy & Thought: Ethics & Morality Quotes

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"Wherefore, for the public interest and benefit of human society, it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men"

Isaac Barrow, Mathematician

"Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it"

Isaac Barrow, Mathematician

"I pass by that; it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters"

Isaac Barrow, Mathematician

"Even private persons, in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them"

Isaac Barrow, Mathematician

"The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but had that deed of treason not been done at all"

Josiah Royce, Philosopher

"There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances, and violations"

Claude Vorilhon, Celebrity

"It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good!"

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont, Author

"There is a higher law than the Constitution"

William H. Seward, Politician

"The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant"

Friedrich Schleiermacher, Theologian

"Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling"

Friedrich Schleiermacher, Theologian

"Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree"

Johann Arndt, Theologian

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