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

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed read more

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

Idealist: a cynic in the making.

Idealist: a cynic in the making.

Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens,
and found them both sublime. On the read more

Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens,
and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we
should rather compare it to the protective blotches on a beetle's
back, and find them both ingenious.

The Bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.

The Bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.

Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question "Have we read more

Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question "Have we anything to eat?" will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.

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.

Morality is of the highest importance--but for us, not for God.

Morality is of the highest importance--but for us, not for God.

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.