Quotes About Ethics

It is as though our very touch bore infection: things which in themselves are good and beautiful are corrupted by our handling of them.

That is a subtle observation on the part of philosophy: you can both love virtue too much and [B] behave with excess [A] in an action which itself is just. The [B] Voice [A] of God adapts itself fittingly to that bias: 'Be not more wise than it behoveth, but be ye soberly wise.

Kendinden söz etmeyi kötü görmek, yasak etmek adet olmuÅŸtur; çünkü kendinden söz etmek her zaman kendini övmek gibi görünür; kendini övmekse herkesin z?dd?na gider. Ama kendinden söz etmeyi yasak etmek, çocuÄŸun burnunu silecek yerde, bununu koparmak olur.

Esta sentencia me parece desacertada, tanto más, cuanto que ningún provecho ni ventaja se alcanza sin el perjuicio de los demás.

The way of truth is one and artless; the way of private gain and success...is double, uneven, and fortuitous.' -On the Useful and the Honourable.

Any instruction which convince people that religious belief alone, without morality, suffices to satisfy God's justice is destructive of all government and is far more harmful than is ingenious and subtle. Men's practices reveal an extraordinary distinction between devotion and sense of right and wrong.

Kun je ook maar iemand goed vinden als je niemand slecht vindt?

Gjør vi ikke oss selv til dyr når vi kaller den handling som skaper oss dyrisk?

All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not the science of goodness.

ved sin bydende autoritet sløver og fordummer den all Platons samlede teologi og filosofi; likevel gir han ikke fra seg et kny. Overalt ellers kan man bevare en viss anstendighet; alle andre aktiviteter finner seg i sømmelighetsregler, men kjærlighetsakten kan man bare forestille seg som lastefull eller komisk. Bare prøv å finne en klok og behersket måte å bedrive den på.

Decía la suegra de Pitágoras que la mujer que se acuesta con un hombre debe dejar también la vergüenza con la ropa y recuperarla con las enaguas.

Ne garip ... insan? öldürmek için gün ?????nda geniÅŸ meydanlar arar?z ama onu yaratmak için karanl?k köÅŸelere gizleniriz. Åžu insan ne korkunç bir hayvan ki kendi zevklerini ba??n?n belas? say?yor. Bizi yaratan iÅŸi hayvanl?k saymaktan daha büyük hayvanl?k m? olur?

But between ourselves, let me say that there are two things I have always observed to go hand in hand: super-celestial opinions and sub-terrestrial morals.

Lying is an accursed vice. It is only our words which bind us together and make us human.

It is not without good reason said, that he who has not good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying

We're moving towards such a strange time.A time when all our moral choices will be complicated and compromised by our love of progress

there is no glory in punishing

A way of life can be shared among individuals of different ages, status, and social activity. It can yield intense relations not resembling those that are institutionalized. It seems to me that a way of life can yield a culture and an ethics. To be gay, I think, is not to identify with the psychological traits and the visible masks of the homosexual but to try and define and develop a way of life.

No seventeenth-century pedagogue would have publicly advised his disciple, as did Erasmus in his Dialogues, on the choice of a good prostitute.

And the good ruler is precisely the one who exercises his power as it ought to be exercised, that is, simultaneously exercising his power over himself. And it is the power over oneself that thus regulates one's power over others.

everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent

soÌ"phrosyneÌ", el estado al que tendemos, mediante el ejercicio del autocontrol y mediante la moderación en la práctica de los placeres, está caracterizada como una libertad.

Utopía del pudor judicial: quitar la existencia evitando sentir el daño, privar de todos los derechos sin hacer sufrir, imponer penas liberadas de dolor.

templanza es representada con toda regularidad entre las cualidades que pertenecen —o por lo menos deberían pertenecer— no a cualquiera, sino en forma privilegiada a aquellos que tienen rango, posición y responsabilidad en la ciudad.