Quotes About Morality

There is, therefore, only one categorical imperative. It is: Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

Out of wood so crooked and perverse as that which man is made of, nothing absolutely straight can ever be wrought.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

There is… only a single categorical imperative and it is this: Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

From timber so crooked as that from which man is carved, nothing entirely straight can be made.

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.

Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not seek or conjecture either of them as if they were veiled obscurities or extravagances beyond the horizon of my vision; I see them before me and connect them immediately with the consciousness of my existence.

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

If the truth shall kill them, let them die.

Perhaps the world is not as a simple a place as I would like it to be. No one is following any of the principles that they are supposed to.

Without love--what are we, what have we? Throughout the world, absolute certainty, righteousness, and outrage have completely displaced love and compassion. So, although we all know that we are right, where are we without love?

Mothers train your children to only Speak Truth

Bravery is standing with the truth and right

Faith should be about encouraging all that is noble in a human being.

A condemned poor man, if steals to feed his starving kid, is slammed into prison. Contrast this to a rich man's crime.

De hecho, no sé si realmente creía en sus teorías. Hoy me inclino a suponer que sí. Uno tiene que creer en algo para alcanzar tal grado de vileza

Een overlevingsstrategie die de morele grondvesten ondermijnt zou ik niet 'overleven' noemen maar 'zelfvernietiging', de aanvaarding van destructieve krachten.

Righteousness, according to Mencius, is a straight and narrow path which a man ought to take to regain the lost paradise.

Virtues are no less contagious than vices.

Courage was scarcely deemed worthy to be counted among virtues, unless it was exercised in the cause of righteousness.

Courage is doing what is right