Quotes About Morality

One may attain salvation in any walk of life; on

But at least one thing was unquestionably new: the valuation of the fulfillment of duty in worldly affairs as the highest form which the moral activity of the individual could assume. This

An attitude of moral indifference has no connection with scientific "objectivity".

The only way of living acceptably to God was not to surpass worldly morality in monastic asceticism, but solely through the fulfillment of the obligations imposed upon the individual by his position in the world. That was his calling. 

Loss of time through sociability, idle talk, luxury," even more sleep than is necessary for health, six to at most eight hours, is worthy of absolute moral condemnation. It

The Puritan, like every rational type of asceticism, tried to enable a man to maintain and act upon his constant motives, especially those which it g in itself, against the emotions. In

it is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true. Anyone who fails to see this is, indeed, a political infant.

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

Our Parents were gods and monsters at the same time. Maybe we're all like that- gods and monsters

It doesn't matter who's right but what's right.

The moral dilemma is to make peace with the unacceptable

Život je širi od svakog propisa. Moral je zamisao, a život je ono što biva. Kako da ga uklopimo u zamisao, a da ga ne oštetimo? Više je štete naneseno životu zbog sprje?avanja grijeha, nego zbog grijeha.

Zar smo svi zli? — Svi. Neko manje, neko više. Ali svi.

Živi što ljepše, ali tako da te nije stid. I radije pristani da te Bog pita: zašto nisi to u?inio?

Ništa nemam osim uvjerenja da sam ?astan, ako i to izgubim, bit ?u ruševina.

I nijedno zlo ne može postati dobro, zato što ga prihvata ve?ina.

Griješne misli su kao vjetar ko ce ih zaustaviti U cemu je pobožnost ako nema iskušenja koja se savladavaju ?ovjek nije Bog i njegova snaga je baš u tome da suzbija svoju prirodu.

Life is larger than any principle. Morality is an idea, but life is what we live. How can we fit it into this idea without damaging it? More lives have been ruined in attempts to prevent sin than because of sin itself.

Life is larger than any principle. Morality is an idea, but life is what we live. How can we fit it into this idea without damaging it? More lives have been ruined in attempts to prevent sin than because of sin itself." "Should we live in sin then?" "No. But prohibiting it doesn't help at all. It creates hypocrisy and spiritual cripples." "So what should we do?" "I don't know.

What is the purpose of piety if there are no temptations to resist? Man is not God, his strength is the ability to restrain his own nature, so I thought, and if he has nothing to restrain, then what are his merits?

when people settle their accounts, guilt is easy to find, and justice is the right to do whatever we think must be done, and therefore justice can be anything.

Kad bi Bog kažnjavao za svako u?injeno zlo, ne bi na zemlji ostalo nijedno živo bi?e

Tako je bolje,bez slatkih rije?i,bez praznog smješka,bez varanja. Sve je lijepo dok ništa ne tražimo,a prijatelje je opasno iskušavati. ?ovjek je vjeran samo sebi.

Uvijek ?ovjek ima malo mogu?nosti za izbor. Uglavnom dvije, da strada ?asno ili ne?asno. Ja sam ?astan ?ovjek i izabrao sam ovu drugu. Najgore što smo slobodni da biramo, a mislimo da nismo. Bolje bi bilo da nismo.