Quotes About Morality

Better well hanged than ill wed.

If a man in truth wills the Good then he must be willing to suffer all for the Good.

For my part I can in a way understand Abraham, but at the same time I apprehend that I have not the courage to speak, and still less to act as he did — but by this I do not by any means intend to say that what he did was insignificant, for on the contrary it is the one only marvel.

words, rejecting the doctrine of sin

Ein Spießbürger ist, wer ein absolutes Verhältnis zu relativen Dingen hat.

La mala conciencia, sin embargo, puede hacer interesante la existencia…

Sócrates tiene razón: cuando un hombre no hace lo correcto, es porque no lo entiende. Si lo entendiera, lo haría: por tanto, el pecado es ignorancia. El cristianismo tiene razón: el pecado es culpa. Porque cuando un hombre no hace lo correcto, es muy cierto que es porque no lo entiende, pues si lo entendiera… etc. Pero la razón por la que no entiende lo correcto es que no puede entenderlo, y no puede entenderlo porque no desea entenderlo. Y este es el punto.

If he is not supposed to be that, then he is a hypocrite, and the higher he climbs on this path, the more dreadful a hypocrite he is.

Is this the same teaching, when Christ says to the rich young man, Sell all that thou hast, and give it to the poor; and when the pastor says, Sell all that thou hast and – give it to me?

Only at the moment when his act is in absolute contradiction to his feeling is his act a sacrifice, but the reality of his act is the factor by which he belongs to the universal, and in that aspect he is and remains a murderer.

Kierkegaard says: "An ethic which ignores sin is an absolutely idle science.

As soon as the single individual asserts himself in his singularity before the universal, he sins; and only by acknowledging this can he be reconciled again with the universal

Neither can one who wills the Good do so out of fear of punishment. In essence, this is the same thing as willing the Good for the sake of a reward.

For when faith is eliminated by becoming null or nothing, then there only remains the crude fact that Abraham wanted to murder Isaac – which is easy enough for anyone to imitate who has not faith, the faith, that is to say, which makes it hard for him. 1

That there may be some who need coercion, who if given free rein would riot in selfish pleasure like unbridled beasts, is no doubt true, but one should show precisely by the fact that one knows how to speak with fear and trembling that one is not of their number.

In the nature of things a priesthood is always demoralizing.

An author doesn't have the moral right to violate truth and take refuge in the claim that he/she is only a creative artist.

To sin is human, to lay snares is diabolical.

I put it to you, Doctor, that our gods are what good and bad once were before they became categories un human reasoning.

Full revelation, she couldn't help feeling, was something which was considered a virtue only among the reckless or the cruel.

Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.

It seems there is no such thing as a purely good deed, a completely right action. Even this task, which i took on for the very best of reasons, involves making choices that are not that good, choices that might even be wrong.

The ruthlessness of the godly invalidated their claims of virtue.

Honesty is not the best policy in life. Only, perhaps, in art.