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“It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.”

Want May Speak Difficult Duty Morality And Love Neighbor Mediocrity Restraint

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of all that, into something beyond. One has a glimpse of a country where they do not talk of those things, except perhaps as a joke. Every one there is filled full with what we should call goodness as a mirror is filled with light. But they do not call it goodness. They do not call it anything. They are not thinking of it. They are too busy looking at the source from which it comes.”

Source: A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works

“The vital energies regulate themselves naturally without compulsive duty or compulsive morality both of which are sure signs of existing antisocial impulses.”

Energy Duty Morality Impulse Antisocial

Book:The Discovery of the Orgone

Source: The Discovery of the Orgone

“The relations between parents and children are certainly not only those of constraint. There is spontaneous mutual affection, which from the first prompts the child to acts of generosity and even of self-sacrifice, to very touching demonstrations which are in no way prescribed. And here no doubt is the starting point for that morality of good which we shall see developing alongside of the morality of right or duty, and which in some persons completely replaces it.”

Source: The Moral Judgement of the Child

“Men neglect the duties incumbent on man, yet are treated like demi-gods; religion is also separated from morality by a ceremonial veil, yet men wonder that the world is almost, literally speaking, a den of sharpers or oppressors.”

Men World Wonder Atheism Duty Morality Positive Atheism Treated Neglect Veils Oppressors Incumbents Dens

Book:A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution

Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution

“I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality and highest importance.”

Men Soul Duty Morality Highest Conscience Importance Favors Payment Gracious

Book:Works

Source: Works

“Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too. Even with the best intentions, language misused, language used stupidly, carelessly, brutally, language used wrongly, breeds lies, half-truths, confusion. In that sense you can say that grammar is morality. And it is in that sense that I say a writer's first duty is to use language well.”

Source: Steering the craft: exercises and discussions on story writing for the lone navigator or the mutinous crew

“You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter;but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You daren't handle high explosives; but you're all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!”

Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

“To have the fear of God before our eyes, and, in our mutual dealings with each other, to govern our actions by the eternal measures of right and wrong:MThe first of these will comprehend the duties of religion;Mthe second, those of morality, which are so inseparably connected together, that you cannot divide these two tableswithout breaking and mutually destroying them both.”

Firsts Two Eye Action Together Religion Duty Morality Eternal Bible Connected Mutual Divides Destroying Our Actions Dealings

Author:Laurence Sterne

“Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.”

Firsts Duty Morality Contrary Superiors Command Obedience

Book:A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction

Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction

“The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and beauty of virtue, beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one, and embrace the other.”

Ends Moral Teach Virtue Duty Habit Morality Embrace Vices Representation Speculation Begets Deformity

Book:Moral Philosophy

Source: Moral Philosophy

“When human beings are regarded as moral beings, sex, instead of being enthroned upon the summit, administering upon rights and responsibilities, sinks into insignificance and nothingness. My doctrine then is, that whatever it is morally right for man to do, it is morally right for woman to do. Our duties originate, not from difference of sex, but from the diversity of our relations in life, the various gifts and talents committed to our care, and the different eras in which we live.”

“Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.”

Term Duty Morality Performances Observance

Book:Hind Swaraj

Source: Hind Swaraj

“The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.”

Self Individual Interest Groups Duty Morality Concepts Relation Self Interest Survival Instinct

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“[T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty men of their hands, the smiters and the builders and the judges, have lived long and done sternly and yet preserved this lovely character; and among our carpet interests and twopenny concerns, the shame were indelible if we should lose it. Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.”

“Namely, if I am challenging the base of all these institutions, I'm challenging the moral code of altruism. The precept that man's moral duty is to live for others. That man must sacrifice himself to others. Which is the present day morality.”

Ifs Men Challenges Moral Sacrifice Duty Morality Institutions Code Altruism Present Day Moral Code Moral Duty Live For Others

Author:Ayn Rand

“Schiller never wanted to replace the moral with the aesthetic but he did want the moral to be one part of the aesthetic. He rightly notes the aesthetic dimension of morality, that we use concepts like grace to characterise people who do their duty with ease and pleasure.”

People Want Use Wanted Pleasure Moral Grace Duty Morality Concepts Notes Ease Dimensions Aesthetic

Author:Frederick C. Beiser

“What is central to morality is rational self-constraint (acting from duty), in cease where there is no other incentive to do your duty except that the moral law commands it.”

Self Law Acting Moral Duty Morality Cease Rational Command Incentives Constraints Moral Law

Author:Allen W. Wood

“The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.”

Seems Atheism Health Duty Morality Exercise Conscious Diets Preservation Natural Health Health Is Wealth

Author:Herbert Spencer

“Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.”

Inspiration Inspiring Moral Rights Duty Morality Connected 4th Of July American Revolution Human Happiness Presidents Day Moral Duty

Book:The Writings of George Washington: pt. V. Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses

Source: The Writings of George Washington: pt. V. Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses

“The world is ruled by neither justice nor morality; crime is not punished nor virtue rewarded, one is forgotten as quickly as the other. The world is ruled by power and power is obtained with money. To work is senseless, because money cannot be obtained through work, but through exploitation of others. And if we cannot exploit as much as we wish, at least let us work as little as we can. Moral duty? We believe neither in the morality of man nor in the morality of systems. [p. 168]”

Ifs Men World Believe Littles Wish Justice Moral Virtue Crime Duty Morality Forgotten Exploitation Exploits Moral Duty

Author:Tadeusz Borowski