Top 1200 Moral Philosophy Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious commitment. It is a sin against individual conscience. It makes moral children of the adults from whom moral agency is required. It makes a vow, which is meant to require religious figures to listen always to the law of God, beholden first to the laws of very human organizations in the person of very human authorities. It is a law that isn't even working in the military and can never substitute for personal morality.

My philosophy is that there is no point in being sad or hating who you are.

I don't attach importance to great speeches or philosophy.

We need strong Christians who can persevere against hardship, who can sustain hope through tragedy, who can lift others by their example and their compassion, and who can consistently overcome temptations. We need strong Christians who can make important things happen by their faith and who can defend the truth of Jesus Christ against moral relativism and militant atheism. What is the source of such moral and spiritual power, and how do we obtain it? The source is God. Our access to that power is through our covenants with Him.

I eat in the same philosophy that I live with: joyfully!

Poetry and philosophy will become friends.

Nothing can better express the feelings of the scientist towards the great unity of the laws of nature than in Immanuel Kant's words: "Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing awe: the stars above me and the moral law within me."... Would he, who did not yet know of the evolution of the world of organisms, be shocked that we consider the moral law within us not as something given, a priori, but as something which has arisen by natural evolution, just like the laws of the heavens?

All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.

Philosophy is transcendental homelessness; it is the urge to be at home everywhere

Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.

To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.

Hard distinctions make bad philosophy.

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact.

My philosophy is live life so you won't mind talking about it.

Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.

Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.

Science fiction tends to be philosophy for stupid people.

I think my philosophy in music has been to accentuate the positive.

I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.

My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence.

Even in the era of AIDS, sex raises no unique moral issues at all. Decisions about sex may involve considerations about honesty, concern for others, prudence, and so on, but there is nothing special about sex in this respect, for the same could be said of decisions about driving a car. (In fact, the moral issues raised by driving a car, both from an environmental and from a safety point of view, are much more serious than those raised by sex.)

It is a proof of philosophical mediocrity, today, to look for a philosophy.

It is important to understand the philosophy of the city and country.

To take philosophy seriously is to engage with it philosophically.

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

Moral questions may not have objective answers-whether revealed by God or by science-but they do have rational ones, answers rooted in a rationality that emerges out of social need. That rationality can only be discovered through exercising the human potential for rational dialogue, the potential for thinking about the world, and for discussing, debating and persuading others. Values can never be entirely wrenched apart from facts; but neither can they be collapsed into facts. It is the existence of humans as moral agents that allows us to act as the bridge between facts and values.

My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

Truth as such is not a particularly important concept in naturalistic philosophy.

I want to study philosophy. That fascinates me.

The Shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge, and it therefore, as a rule, meets with considerable resistance. Indeed, self-knowledge as a psychotherapuetic measure frequently requires much painstaking work extending over a long period of time.

Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard.

The Savage interrupted him. "But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?" "You might as well ask if it's natural to do up one's trousers with zippers," said the Controller sarcastically. "You remind me of another of those old fellows called Bradley. He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons – that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to."

Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality seeks to restrain the feelings; art seeks to define them by externalizing them, by giving them significant form. Morality has only one aim - the ideal good; art has quite another aim - the objective truth... art never changes.

Too much philosophy makes men mad.

The philosophy of my life is the harder I worked, the luckier I got.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

The beginning of philosophy is the recognition of the conflict between opinions.

Philosophy starts with doubt and loves only truth.

My philosophy has always been to stand with all countries and all humanity.

My philosophy is very simple: when in doubt, take a bath.

Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable.

The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought.

Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

I join cordially in admiring and revering the Constitution of the United States, the result of the collected wisdom of our country. That wisdom has committed to us the important task of proving by example that a government, if organized in all its parts on the Representative principle unadulterated by the infusion of spurious elements, if founded, not in the fears & follies of man, but on his reason, on his sense of right, on the predominance of the social over his dissocial passions, may be so free as to restrain him in no moral right, and so firm as to protect him from every moral wrong.

Original philosophy is always "deviant" or even subversive.

Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.

Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté.

My whole philosophy is about playing dress-up.

My philosophy has always been simple: Believe in yourself.

Thus moral theology leads us four steps deeper than law. To fulfill the moral law, we need love. To get love, we need union with God. To get union with God, we need the new birth. And to get the new birth, we need faith.

So often times we see these films that erode human dignity...films that deny the transcendent moral order of the moral universe. They're always eroding natural affections for families. Fathers betray their commitments, children's are always portrayed as brats and disobedient, marriages are always in crisis and struggle. I think (for) most of us, that's not the lives we live. We're always being challenged, we always have challenges but we love our families, we love our spouse, we love our children.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

My philosophy is, 'Eat when hungry, stop when you're full.'

Everyone should have a philosophy for living better.

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.

God — the John Doe of philosophy and religion.

My philosophy, like color television, is all there in black and white.