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Source: Sacred Prolusions: Or, Select Pieces from Bishop Taylor and Mr. Herbert. By the Rev. John Wheeldon, ... With a Preface and a Discourse on Rev.xviii. 21. By the Editor

“True knowledge is that which establishes harmony and synthesis between ience on the one hand and spirituality and ethics on the other.”

Hands Spirituality Ethics Harmony Educational Synthesis True Knowledge

Author:Sai Baba

“The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.”

Morality Ethics Absolutes Stagnation

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)

“There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.”

Men May Reason Moral Morality Demand Ethics

Book:An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.”

Law Race Moral Development Morality Ethics Witness Deposits Moral Life Moral Development

Book:The Path of the Law

Source: The Path of the Law

“We wish genius and morality where affectionate companions, but it is a fact that they are often bitter enemies. They don't necessarily coalesce any more than oil and water do.”

Facts Wish Water Enemy Genius Morality Ethics Oil Bitter Companion Affectionate Oil And Water

Author:Artemas Ward

“The highest courage is to dare to be yourself in the face of adversity. Choosing right over wrong, ethic over convenience, and truth over popularity ... these are choices that measure your life. Travel the path of integrity without looking back, for there is never a wrong time to do the right thing.”

Faces Choices Path Integrity Highest Ethics Adversity Dare Right Thing Being Yourself Popularity Looking Back Convenience Wrong Time Facing Adversity

Author:Michael Moore

“The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.”

Social Morality Ethics Psychological Maximizing

Author:Sam Harris

“Before God, I believe the hour has come. My judgment approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that I have, and all that I am, and all that I hope in this life, I am now ready here to stake upon it. And I leave off as I began, that live or die, survive or perish, I am for the Declaration. It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment. Independence now, and Independence for ever!”

Believe Heart Whole Dies I Believe Hours Moral Democracy Dying Ready Blessing Judgment Ethics Independence This Life Sentiments Stakes Declaration Moral Ethics

Author:John Adams

“Changes in the structure of society are not brought about solely by massive engines of doctrine. The first flash of insight which persuades human beings to change their basic assumptions is usually contained in a few phrases.”

Firsts Humans Human Beings Ethics Structure Insight Doctrine Phrases Assumption Massive Engines Flash

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

“A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility.”

Inspirational Doe Facts Motivational Responsibility Ethics Sense Of Responsibility

Book:Book of Virtues

Source: Book of Virtues

“That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt, of which vice and folly are the only proper objects, is most often unjustly bestowed upon poverty and weakness, has been the complaint of moralists in all ages.”

Has Beens Age Wealth Poverty Virtue Objects Greatness Respect Ethics Weakness Vices Dues Folly Self Respect Admiration Contempt Complaints Moralist

Book:Essays On, I. Moral Sentiments: II. Astronomical Inquiries; III. Formation of Languages; IV. History of Ancient Physics; V. Ancient Logic and Metaphysicis; VI. The Imitative Arts; VII. Music, Dancing, Poetry; VIII. The External Senses; IX. English and Italian Verses

Source: Essays On, I. Moral Sentiments: II. Astronomical Inquiries; III. Formation of Languages; IV. History of Ancient Physics; V. Ancient Logic and Metaphysicis; VI. The Imitative Arts; VII. Music, Dancing, Poetry; VIII. The External Senses; IX. English and Italian Verses

“Above all, we should question the consumer ethic, which uses up non-renewable resources, creates inequality and injustice, generates pollution, destroys other species and upsets the balance of nature. The consumer ethic not only defiles the environment by creating undesirable change in the biosphere but also corrupts the mind and body by defining pleasure in terms of ownership and absorption. Waste itself is a human concept; everything in nature is eventually used. If human beings carry on in their present ways, they will one day be recycled along with the dinosaurs.”