#ethics

While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it. ↗

— Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.

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I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that served. But this generation doesn't quite know; they haven't been tested. ↗

— Jack Scalia

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I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do. ↗

— Potter Stewart

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You honor yourself by acting with dignity and composure. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#culture #education #ethics #inspiration #meditation

I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain. ↗

— René Descartes

#logic #metaphysics #ontology #philosophy #psychology

The greater puzzle of universal wisdom and beauty that we have strived to honor through our work includes the profound legacies of world artistic and spiritual traditions, the innate integrity of human communities where people seek to live in social harmony, and that regenerative stream of life sustained upon the earth itself as it spins through the cosmos to the music of the spheres. ↗

— Luther E. Vann

#art #art-books #beauty #communities #creativity