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Tag: ethics, philosophy

If it were necessary either to do wrong or to suffer it, I should choose to suffer rather than do it.

ethics, philosophy

Marcus Aurelius

It is in your own power to maintain the beauty of your soul, or to be a decent human being.

ethics, philosophy

The superstitious know how to reproach people for their vices better than they know how to teach them virtues, and they strive, not to guide men by reason, but to restrain them by fear, so that they flee the evil rather than love virtues. Such people aim only to make others as wretched as they themselves are, so it is no wonder that they are generally burdensome and hateful to men.

ethics, philosophy

In some crucial cases … repugnance is the emotional expression of deep wisdom, beyond reason’s power completely to articulate it.

ethics, philosophy

Happiness seems to depend on leisure, because we work to have leisure, and wage war to live in peace.

ethics, philosophy

André Comte-Sponville

Atheism is a way of humility. It’s to think oneself to be an animal, as we are actually and to allow oneself to become human.

ethics, philosophy

André Comte-Sponville

Atheism is a way of humility. It’s to think oneself to be an animal, as we are actually and to allow oneself to become human.

ethics, philosophy