Top 1200 Moral Philosophy Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize.

Philosophy was once considered science.

As long as we are on firm moral ground, as long as we're caring about other people, these are legitimate worries. The minute that we start protecting our own interests in the name of these worries and saying, "Oh, we have to make sure that only Ford Motor Company manufactures cars, because we can't be sure that the cars in other countries are being made quite up to our point of view," we're economically off base, and, of course, we're moral hypocrites, too.

History should be written as philosophy.

So long as the mental and moral instruction of man is left solely in the hands of hired servants of the public--let them be teachers of religion, professors of colleges, authors of books, or editors of journals or periodical publications, dependent upon their literary incomes for their daily bread, so long shall we hear but half the truth; and well if we hear so much. Our teachers, political, scientific, moral, or religious; our writers, grave or gay, are compelled to administer to our prejudices and to perpetuate our ignorance.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

My philosophy is: If you can't have fun, there's no sense in doing it.

The good of the governed is the end, and rewards and punishments are the means, of all government. The government of the supreme and all-perfect Mind, over all his intellectual creation, is by proportioning rewards to piety and virtue, and punishments to disobedience and vice. ... The joys of heaven are prepared, and the horrors of hell in a future state, to render the moral government of the universe perfect and complete. Human government is more or less perfect, as it approaches nearer or diverges further from an imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.

Philosophy is reason with the eyes of the soul.

Philosophy has its bugbears, as well as superstition.

A religion without mystics is a philosophy.

We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education. We're starting to put more and more textbooks into our schools. We've become accustomed of late of putting little books into the hands of children, containing fables and moral lessons. We're spending less time in the classroom on the Bible, which should be the principal text in our schools. The Bible states these great moral lessons better than any other man-made book.

Television is to news as bumperstickers are to philosophy.

Personal philosophy: Clothing optional

I have a very English coaching philosophy.

Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our intellectual imagination and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation; but above all because, through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind is also rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.

My judicial philosophy is fidelity to the law.

Philosophy teaches you to think big.

My philosophy is to be strong and work hard.

This is another thing which I really like investigating in my novels: what is it that makes an intimate society, that makes a society in which moral concern for others will be possible? Part of that I think are manners and ritual. We tried to get rid of manners, we tried to abolish manners in the '60s. Manners were very, very old-fashioned and un-cool. And of course we didn't realise that manners are the building blocks of proper moral relationships between people.

There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.

I've never lived with a 'be careful' philosophy.

Isn't that an odd philosophy for a vampire?

Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.

My philosophy is to make money.

My judicial philosophy is straightforward.

The science of love is the philosophy of the heart

When we assume God to be a guiding principle well, sure enough, a god is usually characteristic of a certain system of thought or morality. For instance, take the Christian God, the summum bonum: God is love, love being the highest moral principle; and God is spirit, the spirit being the supreme idea of meaning. All our Christian moral concepts derive from such assumptions, and the supreme essence of all of them is what we call God.

It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee a man's goodness and his liberty will take care of itself. To guarantee his freedom on condition that you approve of his moral character is formally to abolish all freedom whatsoever, as every man's liberty is at the mercy of a moral indictment which any fool can trump up against everyone who violates custom, whether as a prophet or as a rascal.

Philosophy is the opposite of fairy tales

If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong. By absolute we mean that which always applies, that which provides a final or ultimate standard. There must be an absolute if there are to be morals, and there must be an absolute if there are to be real values. If there is no absolute beyond man's ideas, then there is no final appeal to judge between individuals and groups whose moral judgments conflict. We are merely left with conflicting opinions.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.

Have a philosophy of investment and try to follow it.

That's why I love philosophy: no one wins.

My philosophy is always to fulfill contracts.

Philosophy always buries its undertakers.

Philosophy is the true mother of science.

In philosophy an individual is becoming himself.

To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

Not to care for philosophy is to be a true philospher.

AI makes philosophy honest

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

O philosophy, you leader of life.

There is no other start to philosophy but wonder.

My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics.

Philosophy has forgotten about children

There could never be enough rules so finely crafted as to anticipate and cover every situation, and even if there were, enforcement would be impossibly expensive and burdensome. This approach leads to diminished freedom for everyone...In the end, it is only an internal moral compass in each individual that can effectively deal with the root causes as well as the symptoms of societal decay. Societies will struggle in vain to establish the common good until sin is denounced as sin and moral discipline takes its place in the pantheon of civic virtues.

Popular atheism is not a philosophy but a therapy.

Philosophy is talk on a cereal box.

My philosophy is always to play for a win.

Philosophy is the education of grown-ups.

Without philosophy, action has no meaning.

Believe it or not, philosophy has consequences.

We are on strike against martyrdom—and against the moral code that demands it. We are on strike against those who believe that one man must exist for the sake of another. We are on strike against the morality of cannibals, be it practiced in body or in spirit. We will not deal with men on any terms but ours—and our terms are a moral code which holds that man is an end in himself and not the means to any end of others.

The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy.

Our whole philosophy is one of transparency.

My fashion philosophy is that if I like it, I wear it.