Quotes About Ethics

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?

We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.

Philosophy must never be divorced from action. Unless it is put into practice, philosophy is nothing more than an intellectual game.

The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by events.

That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.

Philosophy is the sum total of all that you know and what you decide is valuable.

And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's what we live with.

Let that ethical philosophy therefore of free-will be far from a Christian mind.

Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.

Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.

The atheist is cheating whenever he makes a moral judgment, acting as though it has an objective reference, when his philosophy in fact precludes it.

Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.

Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.

Propaganda replaces moral philosophy.

I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.

Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.

My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics

Why are philosophers intent on forcing others to believe things? Is that a nice way to behave towards someone?

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabb

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.