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.
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The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral
relativism has set in so deeply that the read more
The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral
relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have
become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can
be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great
moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary
citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes. . . . It is
they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while
their "betters" were derelict.
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the read more
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
I find the doctors and the sages
Have differ'd in all climes and ages,
And two in read more
I find the doctors and the sages
Have differ'd in all climes and ages,
And two in fifty scarce agree
On what is pure morality.
I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you read more
I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us
as much as the word telephone read more
The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us
as much as the word telephone or motor car.
The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.
The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.
A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will read more
A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.
All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
