Morality Quotes - Page 5

• The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

  James Anthony Froude

  Virtue

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• However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Men, Evil, Middle Path

  Wilhelm von Humboldt (2008). “The Limits of State Action”, p.134, Cambridge University Press

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• Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

  Immanuel Kant

  Happiness, Happy, Sound Doctrine

  "Critique of Practical Reason". Book by Immanuel Kant, 1788.

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• I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

  Seneca the Younger

  Peace, Home, Character

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Cheating, Ethics And Morals

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• A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, World, Principles

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.34

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• Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Science, Individuality, Individual Morality

  'Die fröhliche Wissenschaft' (1882) bk. 3, sect. 116

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• Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Art, Virtue, Divided

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• In morals, always do as others do; in art, never.

  Jules Renard

  Art, Moral

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• Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Art, Action, Opium

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• Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course.

  Adrian Cadbury

  Decision, Ethics, Ethical

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• La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.

  Blaise Pascal

  Time, Morale, Eloquence

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• Morality is a private and costly luxury.

  Henry Adams

  Luxury, Ethics, Privacy

  'The Education of Henry Adams' (1907) ch. 22

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• Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

  Aleister Crowley

  People, Ordinary, Thelema

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

  Oscar Wilde

  Gossip, Political, Scandal

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.9, Oscar Wilde

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• The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Divorce, Religion, Traits

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• Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Heart, Political, May

  Speech, Nashville, Tenn., 27 Dec. 1962

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  Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Passion, Perfection

  St Thomas Aquinas (2013). “Summa Theologica, Volume 1”, p.484, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

  Aristotle

  Life, Nature, Preparation

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Business, Successful, Motherhood

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• It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.

  Angela Carter

  Life, Women, Easier

  Angela Carter (2015). “Angela Carter's Book Of Wayward Girls And Wicked Women”, p.6, Hachette UK

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• The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

  Matthew Arnold

  Religious, Religion, Ethics

  'Literature and Dogma' (1873) ch. 1

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• When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Deep Life, Honor

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• I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Simple, Men, Suffering

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• There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Real, Garden, Literature

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