The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.

The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a read more

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning,--an
endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea read more

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning,--an
endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the
distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly
bodies.

Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.

Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one
of its periodical fits of morality.

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one
of its periodical fits of morality.

Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.

Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare

It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.