Quotes of: Moral-principles Keyword

To deny the existence of a God and more specifically the Creator God of Christianity is not based upon a philosophical issue, but rather a moral one.

Apologia: A Collection of Christian Essays

Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species.

The Angel's Game

What is morality, she asked. Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.

Atlas Shrugged

Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.

The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers

Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many grievances in the world.

Ilustrado

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.

Jane Eyre

Empathy is a special application of the imagination. The ability to imagine what it would be like to experience what someone else is experiencing can be crucial to moral sensitivity.

Reading Between the Lines

The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the Q letter into a privet bush, but unfortunately there are times when it is unavoidable.

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

The habit of considering a man’s religious, moral and political opinions before appointing him to a post or giving him a job is the modern form of persecution.

Sceptical Essays

Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis.

Sweeney's Island

Morality he found amusing, in the obscure way that only a man with a Ph.D. in philosophy could find such things amusing, but justice and ethics were inflexible measures, applicable to all, and not to be joked about.

Sleepless

Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.

Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays

One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.

Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists

As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance.

Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists

You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms.

Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists

I will continue to write moral stories in rhymed couplets. But I should be thrice a fool if I did it for aught but my own entertainment.

The Moon and Sixpence

But art and religion will always shadow one another through the abstract nouns they both invoke: truth, seriousness, imagination, sympathy, morality, transcendence.

Nothing to Be Frightened Of

In insisting that personal habit and political action be one and the same, absolutist moralizing limits the possibilities of both.

The Life of Cheese: Crafting Food and Value in America

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Lay Morals

There is the authority of position and the authority of knowledge - 'Authority flows from the one who knows.' But sharing in hardship confers upon a leader something quite rare - moral authority.

The Leadership of Muhammad

A folktale without a moral is merely a whimsy.

Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics, 1981-2011, With Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes, and Miscellany