Quotes About Ethical discernment

Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves in vision as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action. Between these two the wise ones chose aright; the foolish not so.

when there is no sound mind in the society people are compromised in their judgement

O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good.

The moment one begins thinking about morality in terms of well-being, it becomes remarkably easy to discern a moral hierarchy across human societies.

Out of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.

People aren't good or bad. They just do good or bad things. Your only hope is to know which is which.

If you cant distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldnt undertake philanthropic work.

Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.

Chief among these are inappropriate value judgments: the designation as "good" or "evil" of things that in fact are neither good nor evil.

just because you can, doesn't mean that you should (archeron)

It's possible to like bad people, but liking them doesn't make them good.

I know and do what is right better than many big men who read.

We must avoid from the person before which legitimate and unlegitimate thingsor works are equal.

It is one thing to be judgmental; it is entirely different to say greed is wrong or that sexual sins are wrong, and saying so is not judgmentalism.

The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right judgments.

Cultivating judgment about the difference between virtue and vice is the beginning of wisdom, something that can never be out of date. By contrast, our modern relativism begins by asserting that making judgments about how to live is impossible, because there is no real good, and no true virtue (as these too are relative). Thus relativism's closest approximation to "virtue" is "tolerance.

Luckily for me, I don't depend on seeing every patient who comes through my door to pay the rent, and so if someone is involved in an activity that I don't like, I just don't accept that person as a client.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Intelligence once meant more than what any artificial intelligence does. It used to include sensibility, sensitivity, awareness, discernment, reason, acumen, and wit.

El traje de luces que cubre sus ideas políticas permite ver con claridad hacia qué lado carga. Lo cual no le impide distinguir el bien del mal, o reconocer con claridad cuando un edificio tiene los cimientos repletos de fantasmas.

Knowledge is the only virtue," because "Once a man knows good from evil, nothing on earth can compel him to act against that knowledge.

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.

I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.