“I'd forgotten it's an important thing to give thought to your morality and how you intend to live your life.” GivingImportantMoralityImportant ThingsForgottenLive Your Life Author:Lee Pace
“Psychological man may be going nowhere, but he aims to achieve a certain speed and certainty in going. Like his predecessor, the man of the market economy, he understands morality as that which is conducive to increased activity. The important thing is to keep going.” MenMayImportantCertainEconomyAchieveHe ManMoralityActivityAimImportant ThingsSpeedPsychologicalCertaintyKeep GoingPredecessorsMarket Economy Book:The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud Source: The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud
“It is alleged by men of loose principles, or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or important qualifications for political stations. But the Scriptures teach a different doctrine. They direct that rulers should be men who rule in the fear of God, able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness. But if we had no divine instruction on the subject, our own interest would demand of us a strict observance of the principle of these injunctions. . . .” IfsMenShouldImportantDifferentAblePoliticalHateInterestViewsPrinciplesTeachSubjectsDivineMoralityDemandDirectScriptureDoctrineStationsInstructionRulersStrictBe A ManQualificationsDefectiveCovetousnessObservanceFear God Author:Noah Webster
“If the knowledge of torture of others makes you sick, it is a case of sympathy... It can be argued that behaviour based on sympathy is in an important sense egoistic, for one is oneself pleased at others' pleasure and pained at others' pain, and the pursuit of one's own utility may thus be helped by sympathetic action.” IfsMayImportantActionPainReligionPleasureCasesMoralitySickOneselfPursuitTortureBehaviourUtilitySympatheticPain And Pleasure Book:Choice, Welfare and Measurement Source: Choice, Welfare and Measurement
“The purpose of a fishing trip is not to catch fish. Bringing home meat is important, but it is more symbolic than necessary, as the new morality of catch-and-release has shown. What is important is what happens between people on fishing trips, especially between uncles and nephews, fathers and sons, old men in general and young boys in particular, it is one of the few times men are together without women.” PeopleMenImportantHomeHappensTogetherYoungPurposeFatherBoysSeaParticularSonMoralityRiversFishesBoatReleaseMeatLakesFishingOld ManUnclesSymbolicFather And SonNephew Author:Paul G. Quinnett
“In England Giordano Bruno had given lectures on the plurality of worlds, and in that country had written, in Italian, his most important works. It added not a little to the exasperation against him, that he was perpetually declaiming against the insincerity, the impostures, of his persecutors - that wherever he went he found skepticism varnished over and concealed by hypocrisy; and that it was not against the belief of men, but against their pretended belief, that he was fighting; that he was struggling with an orthodoxy that had neither morality nor faith.” MenWorldLittlesImportantCountryFightingFoundBeliefGivenStruggleWrittenAtheismMoralityEnglandPositive AtheismHypocrisyWorking ItItalianSkepticismLecturesOrthodoxyConcealedInsincerityImportant WorkExasperation Author:John William Draper