"What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring."

Ethics, Aesthetics, Philosophy, Contrast

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"What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring."

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"Your moral foundation and character currently depend on what you hear."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Ethics, Moral Foundation, Character, Influence, Values

"To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: to throw away the happiness of thousands for the chance of the happiness of one: that would be to let guilt within the walls indeed."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

Ethics, Goodness, Grace, Happiness, Guilt

"Morality exists in the neurons as a natural sensation. Religion only tries to codify it."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Ethics, Morality, Truth, Wisdom, Religion

"Life wants you to know that feelings are more important than facts, and you should never hurt someone just to be right."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Ethics, Feelings, Truth, Wisdom, Compassion

"Sometimes it is better to say 'no' and lose your job than it is to say 'yes' and lose your soul."

Todd Stocker, American Author

Ethics, Integrity, Choice, Courage, Work

"Ethics are the things that say, 'Don't stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It's okay because we've shut off the electricity.' And at the point that we've chosen to listen to the world and ignore our ethics, we say, 'I'm having a really hard time getting back up."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Ethics, Morality, Truth, Life

"People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Ethics, Kindness, Empathy, Morality, Justice

"You can know something is a lie when it has no love in it."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Ethics, Lie, Love, Truth, Wisdom

"I was brought up to be honest; the trouble is it gets me nowhere." Liking her better, he smiled and said, "It'll get us to heaven." "Will it?" "If heaven existed." "Do you not believe in heaven, Mr. Fielding, may I ask?" she said, looking at him shyly. "I do not. Yet I believe that honesty gets us there."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Ethics, Honesty, Faith, Belief, Integrity

"Why is it that human beings are allowed to grow up without the necessary apparatus to make sound ethical decisions?"

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

Ethics, Humanity, Decision, Responsibility

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"For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love."

Equality

"Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are."

Being

"Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good."

Being

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

Life

"Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it."

Pleasure

"I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away - yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of the earth's orbit ----------- and wanted to shoot myself."

Despair

"It is now my intention to draw out from the story of Abraham the dialecticalconsequences inherent in it, expressing them in the form ofproblemata, in order to seewhat a tremendous paradox faith is, a paradox which is capable of transforming amurder into a holy act well-pleasing to God, a paradox which gives Isaac back toAbraham, which no thought can master, because faith begins precisely there wherethinking leaves off."

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"Your moral foundation and character currently depend on what you hear."

"To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: to throw away the happiness of thousands for the chance of the happiness of one: that would be to let guilt within the walls indeed."

"Morality exists in the neurons as a natural sensation. Religion only tries to codify it."

"Life wants you to know that feelings are more important than facts, and you should never hurt someone just to be right."

"Sometimes it is better to say 'no' and lose your job than it is to say 'yes' and lose your soul."

"Ethics are the things that say, 'Don't stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It's okay because we've shut off the electricity.' And at the point that we've chosen to listen to the world and ignore our ethics, we say, 'I'm having a really hard time getting back up."

"People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty."

"You can know something is a lie when it has no love in it."

"Why is it that human beings are allowed to grow up without the necessary apparatus to make sound ethical decisions?"

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"Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living."

"Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself."

"Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own."

"For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love."

"Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are."

"Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good."

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

"Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it."

"I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away - yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of the earth's orbit ----------- and wanted to shoot myself."