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Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.
Felix Adler1851–1933Life and Destiny (1913), Section 2: Religion
- Religion
Only the sinner has the right to preach.
Christopher Morley1890–1957
In the Orthodox spiritual tradition, the ultimate moral question we ask is the following: Is what we are doing, is what I am doing, beautiful or not?
CGCarolyn Gifford
- Beauty
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
Aesop620–564 BC
When good men die their goodness does not perish, but lives though they are gone. As for the bad, all that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
Euripides481–407 BCFrg. 734 (Bartlett’s, 1892)
- Good & Evil
If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Proverbs in Prose (1819)
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Speech on the Bill for the Relief of Protestant Dissenters (7 March 1773)
Reputation is character minus what you’ve been caught doing.
MIMichael Iapoce
Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970The Conquest of Happiness, Ch. 4: Boredom and Excitement (1930)
The greatest penalty of evildoing is to grow into the likeness of bad men.
Plato429–349 BCDialogues, Theatetus
- Good & Evil
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
Calvin Coolidge1872–1933
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
Clarence Darrow1857–1938Arguments in the Case of the Communist Labor Party (1920), p. 52
- Good & Evil
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
Alexander Pope1688–1744Imitations of Horace (1733–1738), Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue I, line 136.
What is bad? Everything that is born of weakness.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900The Anti-Christ
Feel no sadness because of evil thoughts: it only strengthens them.
NBNachman of Bratslav
- Good & Evil
- Thinking