Quotes About Ethics

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason

The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men...

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Every person should embrace those [dogmas] that he, being the best judge of himself, feels will do most to strengthen in him love of justice.

men, in so far as they live in obedience to reason necessarily do only such things as are necessarily good for human nature, and consequently for each individual man.

Those who are governed by reason desire nothing for themselves which they do not desire for the rest of humankind.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.

In a state of nature nothing can be said to be just or unjust; this is so only in a civil state, where it is decided by common agreement what belongs to this or that man.

Baruch Spinoza

seulement la foi vraie et la raison qui nous conduisent à la connaissance du bien et du mal.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.

The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.

It might be pleasant to be alternately victim and executioner.

To be a useful man has always seemed to me a hideous thing.

I know I was drugged but that is still no excuse. Why do they want to do things like that?

Why do a reality show if you're going to be fake?