Two things always fill the soul with new and stronger wonder and reverence, the more often and longer we think about them - this is the starry sky above me and the moral law in me.
Immanuel Kant
Morality is the mind of the heart.
Heinrich Heine
Ethics is the aesthetics of the soul.
Pierre Reverdy
Ethics is an attempt to give universal validity to some of our desires.
Bertrand Russell
Morality does not teach how to become happy, but how to become worthy of happiness.
Immanuel Kant
Ethics is the philosophy of good will, and not just good action.
Immanuel Kant
Ethics is either active, creative or passive, repentant, ethics of intolerance towards oneself and others, which can only delve into the so-called sins; and sometimes shameful to be right.
Karol Izhikovsky
A person must be moral freely, which means that he must also be given some freedom to be immoral.
Vladimir Solovyov
No one can be completely free until everyone is free. No one can be perfectly moral until everyone is still moral. No one can be perfectly happy until everyone is still happy.
Herbert Spencer
Act according to such a maxim, which at the same time may itself become a universal law.
Immanuel Kant
Preaching morality is easy, justifying it is difficult.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Morality is not a list of actions and not a collection of rules that can be used like pharmaceutical or culinary recipes.
John Dewey
True ethics begins where the use of words ceases.
Albert Schweitzer
Even death can be consent and therefore a moral act. The animal dies, the person must hand over his soul to its Creator.
Henri Amiel
Christian morality is tailored for growth. Unfortunately, people have stopped growing.
Felix Hwalibug
Do not forget that the Lord's Prayer begins with a request for daily bread. It is difficult to praise the Lord and love your neighbor on an empty stomach.
Woodrow Wilson
The morality of peoples depends on respect for women.
Wilhelm Humboldt
Morality must be a bitter fruit if we give it to wives and sisters.
Alexander Sventohovsky
Virtue is its own reward.
Ovid
The best punishment for virtue is virtue itself.
Aneurin Bevin
An ascetic makes need out of virtue.
Friedrich Nietzsche
To be a patriot, one must hate all nations except one's own; to be a religious man - all sects except one's own; to be a moral person - all falsehood except his own.
Lionel Strachey
Morality has always been the last refuge of people who are indifferent to art.
Oscar Wilde
Immorality is the morality of those who have a better time than we do.
Henry Louis Mencken
True morality neglects morality.
B. Pascal
Morality grows stronger when the flesh grows decrepit.
Molière
Higher morality requires some freedom for immorality as well.
V. Solovyov
Sinlessness in its purest form is a husk,
I am single from the meaning of life,
After all, morality, which did not know sin, -
Just simple bad luck.
I. Huberman
People of higher morality do not consider themselves moral, therefore they have higher morality.
Lao Tzu
All publications and even books about morality, about how to behave in society, do not bring any benefit. Those who read them, that is, those who are educated, do not need them, moral freaks do not read them.
V. Zubkov
A sense of morality helps us understand the essence of morality and how to evade it.
Mark Twain
Moral people are the most vengeful people.
L. Shestov
With the help of a moral sense, a person distinguishes good from bad, and then decides how to act. What are the results of the choice? Nine times out of ten he chooses to do bad things.
Mark Twain
Own moral uncleanliness is a sign of contempt for oneself.
Apuleius
Only with strong, ideal aspirations can people fall morally low.
L. Tolstoy
For chaste people
Through mysterious currents
Sour in vain love juice
Goes to kefir moralizing.
I. Huberman
Wise quotes about morality, aphorisms about morality that not everyone understands in our society.
The task of life not to be on the side of the majority, but to live in accordance with the internal law you are aware of.
Marcus Aurelius
Moral qualities are revealed in connection with intention.
Aristotle
Nature gave man a weapon in his hands - intellectual moral force, but he can use this weapon in reverse side Therefore, a person without moral principles turns out to be the most impious and wild being, base in his sexual and taste instincts.
Aristotle
moral power, like thought, is limitless.
O. Balzac
There is no other moral, except that which is based on the principles of reason and follows from the natural inclination of man to goodness.
P. Bayle
What moral? What should morality be? In a firm, deep conviction, in a fiery, unshakable faith in the dignity of man, in his high purpose. This conviction, this faith is the source of all human virtues, all actions.
V. G. Belinsky
What good in politics, cannot be bad in morality.
Bentham
Moral rules are like signs that show the way in the field of life and show the pitfalls.
C. Buast
manners spoiled more easily than fixed.
L. Vauvenargues
Great thoughts come from the heart.
L. Vauvenargues
There are people, who are to morality as some architects are to houses: comfort comes first.
L. Vauvenargues
people human morality based on human nature, on experience, on reason is necessary.
K. Helvetius
”, published by the publishing house of the Sretensky Monastery, an attempt was made to collect the brightest and most significant thoughts of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, put into the mouths of his heroes or expressed by himself in numerous articles and notes. These are thoughts concerning the main topics that worried the writer throughout his life. creative life: faith and God, man and his life, creativity, modernity, morality, love and, of course, Russia.
I completely renounce the highest harmony. It is not worth the tear of even one tortured child who beat his chest with his fist and prayed in his stinking kennel with his unredeemed tears to "God"!<…>…I don't want to suffer any more. And if the suffering of the children went to replenish the amount of suffering that was necessary to buy the truth, then I affirm in advance that the whole truth is not worth such a price.
(The Brothers Karamazov. XIV. P. 223)
It is not enough to define morality by being faithful to one's convictions. We must also constantly raise the question in ourselves: are my convictions true?
(Notebook. XXVII. S. 56)
I will say one thing: that moral deprivation is harder than all physical torments. A commoner who goes to hard labor comes to his own society, perhaps even to a more developed one. He lost, of course, a lot - his homeland, family, everything, but his environment remains the same.
(Notes from the House of the Dead. IV, p. 55)
... Pity is our treasure, and it is terrible to eradicate it from society. When society ceases to pity the weak and oppressed, then it will become ill for itself: it will harden and wither, it will become depraved and fruitless...
(A writer's diary. XXII, p. 71)
... The noblest abilities of the human heart, namely, the ability to forgive and repay evil with generosity.
(Humiliated and insulted. III. S. 248)
I do not want and cannot believe that evil is the normal state of people. But they all just laugh at this faith of mine. But how can I not believe: I saw the truth - not just what I invented with my mind, but I saw, I saw, and its living image filled my soul forever. I saw her in such a complete integrity that I can’t believe that people couldn’t have her ...
(A writer's diary. XXV, p. 118)
Having become the best ourselves, we will correct the environment and make it better. After all, that alone can fix it.
(A writer's diary. XXI, p. 15)
The low soul, having come out from under oppression, oppresses itself.
(The village of Stepanchikovo and its inhabitants. III, p. 13)
All morality comes out of religion, for religion is only a formula of morality.
(Notebook. XXIV. S. 168)
Without the rudiments of the positive and beautiful, a person cannot go out into life from childhood; without the rudiments of the positive and beautiful, a generation cannot be allowed to travel.
(Diary of a Writer. XXV, p. 181)
(The village of Stepanchikovo and its inhabitants. III, p. 160)
... Without ideals, that is, without at least some definite desire for the best, no good reality can ever turn out.
(A writer's diary. XXII, p. 75)
Crime will always remain a crime... sin will always be a sin, shameful, vile, ignoble, to whatever degree of greatness you exalt the vicious feeling!
(Netochka Nezvanova. II. S. 262-263)
Do not punish him [the person] if you like, but call evil evil, otherwise you will do great harm.
(A writer's diary. XXIII, p. 167)
Whoever wants to be useful, even with his hands literally tied, can do an abyss of good.
(A writer's diary. XXV, p. 62)
I do not want a society where I could not do evil, but such a society that I could do any evil, but did not want to do it myself.
(Notebook. XXIV. S. 162)
The best people are cognized by the highest moral development and the highest moral influence.
(Notebook. XXIV. S. 234)
Errors and perplexities of the mind disappear sooner and without a trace than the errors of the heart; are cured not so much of logical disputes and clarifications, but by the irresistible logic of the events of living, real life, which very often, in themselves, conclude the necessary and correct conclusion and indicate the direct path, if not suddenly, not at the very moment of their appearance, then in any case, in a very short time, sometimes without even waiting for the next generations. Not so with the mistakes of the heart. Mistakes of the heart are a terribly important thing: it is an already infected spirit, sometimes even in an entire nation, carrying with it very often such a degree of blindness that cannot be cured even in the face of any facts, no matter how much they point to a straight path.
(A writer's diary. XXV, p. 5)
... If what we revere as a shrine is shameful and vicious, then we will not escape punishment from nature itself: shameful and vicious carries death in itself and, sooner or later, will execute itself by itself.
(A writer's diary. XXV, p. 98)
Yes, this is why a great moral thought is strong, this is why it unites people into the strongest union, that it is measured not by immediate benefit, but strives them into the future, towards eternal goals, towards absolute joy. How will you unite people to achieve your civic goals, if you do not have a foundation in the original great moral idea?
(A writer's diary. XXVI, p. 164)
... Reason, science and realism can only create an anthill, and not social harmony in which a person could get along.
(A writer's diary. XXI, p. 10)
The morality of peoples depends on respect for women.
The highest goal of human aspirations is a highly moral character.
Morality should be the polar star of science.
If your moral principles make you sad, know that your moral principles are no good.
Morality has not fallen. Morality has changed position.
The morality of a nation is comparable to a toothache: the worse it is, the more painful it is to touch it.
Theoretical morality, which reveals itself in mere systems and words, but does not speak of itself as a deed, as a fact, emerging only from the contemplation of the mind, but not having deep roots in the heart - such morality is worth immorality.
Of all immoral relations in general, treating children as slaves is the most immoral.
Chic Morality Quotes
We recognize a person by his character, but we should recognize him by his moral character. However, a less moral person is recognized not by morality, but, on the contrary, by many other individual traits, which, apparently, represents his character.
Chic maxims and quotes about morality
In the field of morality, one should not show one's virtue on insignificant occasions: one does not brag about virginity.
Good politics is no different from sound morality.
If geometry were as contrary to our passions and interests as morality, then we would also argue against it and violate it in spite of everything.
The whole morality of a man lies in his intentions.
Man is born to work; labor constitutes his earthly happiness, labor is the best guardian of human morality, and labor must be the educator of man.
A person cannot be happy if his heart is agitated by disorderly desires; if the well-being of a neighbor arouses envy in him; greed makes him solicit someone else's, and ambition and hatred deprive him of peace of mind. From this follows the part of education which has as its subject the education of the heart and which scientists call moral education.
Only by destroying most religions can the foundations of sound morality be laid in states.
Moral education must develop the will.
There are people who treat morality as some architects treat houses: comfort comes first.
The power of moral influence is beyond all forces.
With regard to morality, only the following words of the sages of antiquity are the only true ones: to be moral means to live according to the customs of one's country.
Chic Ideas and Quotes About Morality
True morality is developed only in the school of misfortune; permanent happiness can easily become a fatal abyss for virtue.
True self-interest is achieved only by moral behavior.
Art has a moral effect not only because it gives pleasure through moral means, but also because the pleasure delivered by art is itself the path to morality.
Our respect for general rules morality is actually a sense of duty.
For our happiness to be complete, we need the affection and help of the people around us; the latter will agree to love and respect us, to help us in our plans, to work for our happiness only to the extent that we are ready to work for their well-being, this necessary connection is called a moral duty, a moral obligation.
True eloquence neglects eloquence, true morality neglects morality.
Heroism that does not contradict good morality touches people little: only heroism that destroys morality arouses both surprise and delight in people.
The moral qualities of a person must be judged not by his individual efforts, but by his daily life.
It is a moral duty to resist any coercion to an immoral act.
If one cannot see in children the ideal of moral perfection, then at least one cannot but agree that they are incomparably more moral than adults.
At first, maternal education is most important, because morality should be planted in the child as a feeling.
Chic thoughts and quotes about morality
Morality is the soul of history.
Zealots of moral purity are overcome by dirty fantasies.
To be ashamed of one's immorality is one of the rungs of that ladder, at the top of which one is also ashamed of one's own morality.
It is not enough to define morality by being faithful to one's convictions. We still need to constantly raise the question in ourselves, are my beliefs true?
Wherever God is recognized, there is a cult, and where there is a cult, the natural order of moral duty is violated, and morality falls.
Morality is the mind of the will.
Only that which coincides with your sense of beauty and with the ideal in which you embody it is moral.
The more accidental our morality, the more necessary it is to take care of legality.
Genius is just as impossible without taste as character is without morality.
There are many kinds of education and development, and each of them is important in itself, but moral education should stand above all of them.
Absolute morality: everything is forbidden.
Morality is that part of philosophy which is much more interpreted and least of all practiced.
Every immorality stems from the collision of the good with the agreeable, the passions with reason, and has as its source the strength of sensual impulses and the weakness of the moral will.
One must be clear mentally, clean morally and tidy physically.
Chic Advice and Quotes About Morality
Morality is the direction of the will towards common, universal goals. He who acts for a private purpose is immoral. He is moral whose goal can be set as the goal of all rational beings.
Genuine morality is directly poetic, and poetry, in turn, is indirectly moral.
One of the highest principles of true morality is respect for human dignity in every person, without distinction, first of all for the fact that he is a man, and only then for his personal dignity.
By the name of morality we mean not only outward propriety, but the whole internal basis prompting.
Morality is affirmed among the people by a combination of spiritual, natural and political laws. Everything has an influence on it, and therefore it is composed of the totality of the correct actions of citizens according to all these various ratios.
Submission to truth, independent of personal interests and desires, is all honesty, all morality.
Morality must appear in the form of beauty.
In the field of morality, movement is not based on the pleasure of moving alone; there must also be a goal: to deny achieving perfection, that is, reaching the goal, would mean simply making movement impossible.
Morality is the mind of the heart.
Heinrich Heine
Ethics is the philosophy of good will, and not just good action.
Immanuel Kant
Morality is not a teaching about how we should make ourselves happy, but about how we should become worthy of happiness.
Immanuel Kant
Morality does not teach how to become happy, but how to become worthy of happiness.
Immanuel Kant
Ethics is an attempt to give universal validity to some of our desires.
Bertrand Russell
Morality is the basis of all human values.
Albert Einstein
Morality is not a list of actions and not a collection of rules that can be used like pharmaceutical or culinary recipes.
John Dewey
Ethics is the aesthetics of the soul.
Pierre Reverdy
Morality has always been the last refuge of people who are indifferent to art.
Oscar Wilde
The morality of peoples depends on respect for women.
Wilhelm Humboldt
Immorality is the morality of those who have a better time than we do.
Henry Louis Mencken
True ethics begins where the use of words ceases.
Albert Schweitzer
Two things always fill the soul with new and stronger wonder and reverence, the more often and longer we think about them - this is the starry sky above me and the moral law in me.
Immanuel Kant
The highest possible stage of moral culture is when we realize that we are able to control our thoughts.
Charles Darwin
Everything that is beautiful is moral.
Gustave Flaubert
A person must be moral freely, which means that he must also be given some freedom to be immoral.
Vladimir Solovyov
The morality of a person is visible in his attitude to the word.
Lev Tolstoy
Ethics can be either active, creative or passive, repentant, ethics of intolerance towards oneself and others, which can only delve into the so-called sins; and sometimes shameful to be right.
Karol Izhikovsky
The moral qualities of a person must be judged not by his individual efforts, but by his daily life.
Blaise Pascal
No one can be completely free until everyone is free. No one can be perfectly moral until everyone is still moral. No one can be perfectly happy until everyone is still happy.
Herbert Spencer
Ethical behavior should be based on sympathy for people, education and social connections; a religious background is not needed at all.
Albert Einstein
Morality arose along with vice.
Wilhelm Humboldt
Act according to such a maxim, which at the same time may itself become a universal law.
Immanuel Kant
Arthur Schopenhauer
The strong trample on morality. Weak morality caresses. The one whom morality pursues always stands between the strong and the weak.
Akutagawa Ryunosuke
All religions base morality on obedience, that is, on voluntary slavery.
Alexander Herzen
Even death can be consent and therefore a moral act. The animal dies, the person must hand over his soul to its Creator.
Henri Amiel
Do not forget that the Lord's Prayer begins with a request for daily bread. It is difficult to praise the Lord and love your neighbor on an empty stomach.
Woodrow Wilson
Christian morality is tailored for growth. Unfortunately, people have stopped growing.
Felix Hwalibug
Preaching morality is easy, justifying it is difficult.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Virtue is its own reward.
Ovid
Morality must be a bitter fruit if we give it to wives and sisters.
Alexander Sventohovsky
An ascetic makes need out of virtue.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When a person is unhappy, he becomes moral.
Marcel Proust
The best punishment for virtue is virtue itself.
Aneurin Bevin
To be a patriot, one must hate all nations except one's own; to be a religious man - all sects except one's own; to be a moral person - all falsehood except his own.
Lionel Strachey
Conscience usually torments not those who are guilty.
Erich Maria Remarque
Perhaps conscience is the source of morality, but morality has never been the source of what conscience considers good.
Akutagawa Ryunosuke
We always think of a moral position as vertical, and an immoral position as horizontal. "Weshalb?" - I'll ask in the language of Freud.
Stanislav Jerzy Lec
