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The morality of nations depends on respect for women.

The highest goal of human aspiration is high moral character.

Morality should be the polar star of science.

If your moral principles make you sad, know that your moral principles are no good.

Morality has not declined. Morality has changed position.

The morality of a nation is comparable to a toothache: the worse it is, the more painful it is to touch.

Theoretical morality, which reveals itself in mere systems and words, but does not speak of itself as a matter, as a fact, which comes only from the contemplations of the mind, but does not have deep roots in the heart - such morality is worth immorality.

Of all generally immoral relationships, treating children as slaves is the most immoral.

Great Quotes About Morality

We recognize a person by his character, but we should recognize him by his moral character. However, a less moral person is recognized not by morality, but, on the contrary, by many other individual traits, which apparently represents his character.

Great maxims and quotes about morality

In the field of morality, one should not show one’s virtue on insignificant occasions: one does not boast about one’s virginity.

Good politics is no different from sound morality.

If geometry were as contrary to our passions and interests as morality, then we would also argue against it and violate it in spite of everything.

A person's entire morality lies in his intentions.

Man is born to work; labor constitutes his earthly happiness, labor is the best guardian of human morality, and labor should be a person’s educator.

A person cannot be happy if his heart is agitated by disordered wishes; if the well-being of a neighbor arouses envy in him; selfishness makes him covet someone else's, and ambition and hatred deprive him of peace of mind. From this follows the part of education that has as its subject the education of the heart and is called by scientists moral education.

Only by destroying most religions can the foundations of sound morality be laid in states.

Moral education must develop will.

There are people who treat morality as some architects treat houses: convenience is put in the foreground.

The power of moral influence is beyond all powers.

In relation to morality, the only true words of the sages of antiquity are the following: to be moral means to live according to the morals of your country.

Great ideas and quotes about morality

True morality is developed only in the school of misfortune; constant happiness can easily become a fatal abyss for virtue.

True self-benefit is achieved only by moral behavior.

Art has a moral effect not only because it provides pleasure through moral means, but also because the pleasure provided by art itself serves as a path to morality.

Our respect for general rules morality is actually a sense of duty.

For our happiness to be complete, we need the affection and help of the people around us; the latter will agree to love and respect us, help us in our plans, work for our happiness only to the extent that we are ready to work for their well-being; this necessary connection is called a moral duty, a moral obligation.

True eloquence neglects eloquence, true morality neglects morality.

Heroism that does not contradict good morality touches people little: only heroism, which destroys morality, evokes both surprise and delight in people.

The moral qualities of a person should be judged not by his individual efforts, but by his daily life.

It is a moral duty to resist any coercion to immoral action.

If one cannot see the ideal of moral perfection in children, then at least one cannot but agree that they are incomparably more moral than adults.

At first, maternal education is most important, for morality must be instilled in the child as a feeling.

Great thoughts and quotes about morality

Morality is the soul of history.

Adherents of moral purity are overcome by dirty fantasies.

To be ashamed of one's immorality is one of the steps of the ladder, at the top of which one is also ashamed of one's morality.

It is not enough to define morality by adherence to one's beliefs. I must constantly raise the question within myself: are my beliefs true?

Wherever God is recognized, there is a cult, and where there is a cult, the natural order of moral duty is violated, and morality declines.

Morality is the reason of the will.

Only that which coincides with your sense of beauty and with the ideal in which you embody it is moral.

The more random our morality, the more necessary it is to take care of the rule of law.

Genius is as impossible without taste as character is without morality.

There are many types of education and development, and each of them is important in itself, but moral education should be higher than all of them.

Absolute morality: everything is prohibited.

Morality is that part of philosophy that is much more interpreted and least implemented.

Any immorality stems from a conflict between the good and the pleasant, passions and reason - and has its source in the strength of sensual impulses and the weakness of the moral will.

One must be mentally clear, morally pure and physically tidy.

Great advice and quotes about morality

Morality is the direction of the will towards common, universal goals. He who acts for a private purpose is immoral. He is moral whose goal can be stated as the goal of all rational beings.

True morality is directly poetic, and poetry, in turn, is indirectly moral.

One of the highest principles of true morality is respect for human dignity in every person, without distinction, first of all for the fact that he is a man, and then for his personal merits.

By the name of morality we mean not only external decency, but also the entire internal basis of motivation.

Morality is established among the people by a set of spiritual, natural and political laws. Everything has an influence on it, and therefore it is composed of the totality of the correct actions of citizens in all these various relationships.

Submission to the truth, independent of personal interests and desires - this is all honesty, all morality.

Morality must appear in the form of beauty.

In the field of morality, movement is not based on the pleasure of moving alone; there must be a goal: to deny achieving perfection, that is, to reach the goal, would simply mean making movement impossible.

Morality is the mind of the heart.
Heinrich Heine

Ethics is a philosophy of good will, not just good action.
Immanuel Kant

Morality is a teaching not about how we should make ourselves happy, but about how we should become worthy of happiness.
Immanuel Kant

Morality teaches not how to become happy, but how to become worthy of happiness.
Immanuel Kant

Ethics is an attempt to give universal validity to some of our desires.
Bertrand Russell

Morality is the basis of all human values.
Albert Einstein

Morality is not a list of actions or a collection of rules that can be used like apothecary or culinary recipes.
John Dewey

Ethics is the aesthetics of the soul.
Pierre Reverdy

Morality has always been the last refuge of people indifferent to art.
Oscar Wilde

The morality of nations depends on respect for women.
Wilhelm Humboldt

Immorality is the morality of those who have a better time than we do.
Henry Louis Mencken

True ethics begins where words cease to be used.
Albert Schweitzer

Two things always fill the soul with new and ever stronger surprise and awe, the more often and longer we reflect on them - this is the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
Immanuel Kant

The highest possible stage of moral culture is when we realize that we are able to control our thoughts.
Charles Darwin

Everything that is beautiful is moral.
Gustave Flaubert

A person must be freely moral, which means that he must also be given some freedom to be immoral.
Vladimir Soloviev

A person's morality is visible in his attitude to the word.
Lev Tolstoy

Ethics can be either active, creative - or passive, repentant, an ethics of intolerance towards oneself and towards others, which can only delve into so-called sins; and at times it's a shame to be right.
Karol Izhikowski

The moral qualities of a person should be judged not by his individual efforts, but by his daily life.
Blaise Pascal

No one can be completely free until everyone is free. No one can be completely moral until everyone is still moral. No one can be completely happy until everyone is still happy.
Herbert Spencer

Ethical behavior should be based on sympathy for people, education and social connections; a religious basis is not needed at all.
Albert Einstein

Morality arose along with vice.
Wilhelm Humboldt

Act in accordance with such a maxim, which at the same time can itself become a universal law.
Immanuel Kant

Arthur Schopenhauer

The strong trample on morality. Morality caresses the weak. He who is persecuted by morality always stands between the strong and the weak.
Akutagawa Ryunosuke

All religions base morality on submission, that is, on voluntary slavery.
Alexander Herzen

Even death can be consent and therefore a moral act. The animal dies, man must entrust his soul to its Creator.
Henri Amiel

Don't forget that the Lord's Prayer begins with a request for our daily bread. It is difficult to praise God and love your neighbor on an empty stomach.
Woodrow Wilson

Christian morality is tailored to grow. Unfortunately, people have stopped growing.
Felix Hvalibug

It is easy to preach morality, but it is difficult to justify it.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Virtue is its own reward.
Ovid

Morality must be a bitter fruit if we give it to our wives and sisters.
Alexander Sventohovsky

An ascetic makes a need out of virtue.
Friedrich Nietzsche

When a person is unhappy, he becomes moral.
Marcel Proust

The best punishment for virtue is virtue itself.
Aneurin Bevin

To be a patriot one must hate all nations except one's own; to be a religious person - all sects except your own; to be a moral person - all falsehood, except your own.
Lionel Strachey

Conscience usually does not torment those who are guilty.
Erich Maria Remarque

Perhaps conscience is the source of morality, but morality has never yet been the source of what is considered good by conscience.
Akutagawa Ryunosuke

We always imagine a moral position as vertical, an immoral position as horizontal. "Weshalb?" - I’ll ask in Freud’s language.
Stanislav Jerzy Lec

Text Sayings, aphorisms and quotes from great and famous people" :

We always exaggerate the importance of an individual's life. There are many people who do not know what to do with life - it is not so immoral to deprive them of it.
Albert Camus
Life, Morality

To say that social progress produces morality is like saying that building stoves produces heat.
Lev N. Tolstoy
Morality, Progress

If a person is serious and sincere in his search for morality, then the first thing he should turn away from is meat-eating... Vegetarianism is considered a criterion by which one can recognize how serious and true a person’s desire for moral perfection is.
Lev N. Tolstoy
Vegetarianism, Morality

I have counted many sects in the world. Of all
I chose a sect of love pleasures for myself.
You are my God! Give me the joys of heaven
To merge with God, blazing with love, is not a sin!
Omar Khayyam
Morality

A true friend should be our second self; he will never demand anything from a friend other than what is morally beautiful; Friendship is given to us by nature as an assistant in virtues, and not as a companion in vices.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friend, Morality

True morality is directly poetic, and poetry, in turn, is indirectly moral.
Jean Paul
Morality, Poet and Poetry

Morality is the flowering of truths.
Hugo Victor Marie

Morality is the mind of the heart.
Heinrich Heine
Morals, Manners and Ethics

Morality must lie in character.
Immanuel Kant
Morals, Manners and Ethics

He who moves forward in science, but lags behind in morality, goes backward rather than forward.
Aristotle
Knowledge, Wise Quotes, Morality

Morality is either conditional or paid on the spot.
Stanislav E. Lec
Morals, Manners and Ethics

By the name of morality we mean not only external decency, but also the entire internal basis of motives.
Jan A. Komensky
Morals, Manners and Ethics

You must definitely shake yourself up physically in order to be mentally healthy.
Lev N. Tolstoy
Health, Morality

The highest possible stage of moral culture is when we understand that we are able to control our thoughts.
Benjamin Disraeli
Culture, Thoughts and Actions, Morality

It is one thing to lie, it is another to be mistaken in speech and deviate from the truth in words due to error, and not malicious intent.
Pierre Abelard
Life Quotes, Misconception, Lies, Morality, Morality

Patience is a wonderful quality, but life is too short to endure for long.
Abul Faraj bin Harun
Morality, Morality, Patience

The best praise is the one that comes from a person to whom you have done nothing good.
Abul Faraj bin Harun
Morality, Morality, Praise, Man

It is better to fall to vultures than to fall to flatterers. Those devour the dead, and these devour the living.
Antisthenes
Flattery, Morality, Ethics

About morality

Another prejudice: the poor and oppressed are the bearers of the highest moral values ​​and are therefore called upon to bring them to all humanity. There is no evidence for this.

The quality of virtue consists rather in doing excellent deeds than in not doing shameful ones.

Aristotle 12, 73

Besides everything else, it is difficult to express in words how much pleasure there is in the knowledge that something belongs to you, because the feeling of self-love inherent in everyone is not accidental, but is embedded in us by nature itself. True, selfishness is rightly condemned, but it does not consist in self-love, but in a greater than proper degree of this love; the same applies to self-interest; All people, so to speak, are susceptible to both feelings.

Aristotle. Politics, 1263 a-b

If the area of ​​morality is determined by the relationships between the interests of individuals in general, then the actual moral relationship is such a relationship when a person treats another as himself.

G. Bandzeladze

What is morality? What should morality consist of? In firm, deep conviction, in fiery, unshakable faith in the dignity of man, in his high purpose. This conviction, this faith is the source of all human virtues, all actions.

V.G. Belinsky 6, 129

Tolerance is not indifference to good and evil; tolerance is the virtue of love of freedom and love of humanity, caring attitude towards human souls, towards their life path, always difficult and painful.

ON THE. Berdyaev 12, 258

Respect is a sincere recognition of someone's merits.

L. Vauvenargues 12, 264

Morality is the reason of the will.

Hegel 12, 157

When a person commits this or that moral act, then he is not yet virtuous; he is virtuous only if this mode of behavior is a permanent feature of his character.

Hegel 3, 48

The main foundation of morality is good will.

Goethe 12, 159

Ethics is the science of the relations existing between people and the duties arising from these relations.

P. Holbach 4, 115

Let the intentions be filled with altruism, but at the same time let each try to make the sacrifice of the other useless for himself.

J.M. Guyot 12, 16

From the point of view of virtue, the one who is prompted to it by internal attraction and verbal conviction will be better than the one who is prompted to it by law and force. For the one who is restrained by the law from an unjust act is capable of sinning secretly, but the one who is led to fulfill his duty by the power of conviction is not capable of committing anything criminal either secretly or openly. That is why anyone who acts correctly, with understanding and consciousness, is at the same time courageous and straightforward.

Democritus 9, 157

Gratitude is not the right of the one who is thanked, but the duty of the one who thanks; demanding gratitude is stupidity; not to be grateful is meanness.

IN. Klyuchevsky 12, 28

Golden rule of behavior:

1) do not do to others what you would not want them to do to you (negative form);

2) treat others as you would like them to treat you (positive form).

Confucius, Bhishma, Thales, Bible, T. Hobbes, D. Locke,

A. Schopenhauer, V.S. Soloviev, L.N. Tolstoy and others.

A developed person, as his development expands, must pay the more significant price spent by humanity on this development.

P.L. Lavrov

Morality grows stronger when the flesh becomes decrepit.

J.–B. Moliere

Don't expect more from people than you give them yourself.

K.P. Orlovsky

There is a class of people, the so-called “moralists,” who do not know how to think warmly, gently, and humanely about other people. For them, people are not living, full-blooded beings, but puppets, bearers of certain principles.

Don't be a wolf, but don't be a sheep either, lest the wolves eat you

Saadi Shirazi

He who condones bad people harms good people.

Publilius Syrus 1,27

Every scoundrel always suspects other people of some kind of baseness .

V.V. Stasov

The main thing in every person’s life is to become kinder and better. How can you become better when you consider yourself good?

L.N. Tolstoy. Humility. M., 1911

Any comparison of oneself with others to justify oneself is a temptation that interferes with both a good life and its main task - improvement. Compare yourself only to the highest excellence, and not to people who may be inferior to you.

L.N. Tolstoy. Humility. M., 1911

To live honestly, you have to rush, get confused, fight, make mistakes, start and quit, and start again... And calmness is spiritual meanness.

L.N. Tolstoy

Dejection and bad spirits are not only painful for those around them, but also contagious, and therefore a decent person, just as he does all the things that are unpleasant for others in solitude, also in solitude indulges in his despondency and irritation.

L.N. Tolstoy

Self-sacrifice should be prohibited by law, since it corrupts those to whom the sacrifice is made.

Oscar Wilde("Ideal husband")

The more decent a person is, the more difficult it is for him to suspect others of dishonor.

Cicero 12, 25

Do not love your neighbor as yourself. This is impudence if you are pleased with yourself, and an insult if you are dissatisfied with yourself.

B. Shaw 12, 36

Morality and law are the same rules traffic, only in relation to human society and to life in general.

Sincerity is the sister of honesty.

A moral person simply does good to the best of his ability and avoids doing evil. Man is moral developed goes further: he is not limited to choosing in favor of good, but strives to bring people as much benefit as possible.