#ethics

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I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself


Friedrich Nietzsche


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Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others.


Jostein Gaarder


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Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.


Albert Schweitzer


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How do you feel about helicopters?" There was a long pause. "How do you mean? Ethically?" "As a mode of transportation." "Faster than camels, but less sustainable.


Maggie Stiefvater


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While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?


George Bernard Shaw


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Philosophy can make people sick.


Aristotle


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One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.


Friedrich Nietzsche


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I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you're not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book.


Brandon Sanderson


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What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons.


Sam Harris


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In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.


Oscar Wilde


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