“Nothing can better express the feelings of the scientist towards the great unity of the laws of nature than in Immanuel Kant's words: "Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing awe: the stars above me and the moral law within me."... Would he, who did not yet know of the evolution of the world of organisms, be shocked that we consider the moral law within us not as something given, a priori, but as something which has arisen by natural evolution, just like the laws of the heavens?” KnowsWorldMindTwoFeelingsLawGivenHeavenStarsNaturalMoralEvolutionScientistUnityTwo ThingsAweOrganismsShockedLaws Of NatureMoral Law Author:Konrad Lorenz
“For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape .” PeopleStarsDarkMoralSuicideClarityLandscapeRisingBombingTerminalLynching Book:Spin Source: Spin
“The suicidally disgruntled were legion, And their enemies included any and all Americans, Brits, Canadians, Danes, et cetera; or, conversely, all Moslems, dark-skinned people, non-English-speakers, immigrants; all Catholics, fundamentalists, atheists; all liberals, all conservatives...For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape.” PeopleStarsDarkMoralEnemyCatholicSuicideAtheistClarityLandscapeRisingImmigrantsSpeakersBombingLegionTerminalLynchingBritsDisgruntledDark Skinned Book:Spin Source: Spin
“He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage to it.” ForceStarsMoralAuthorityRemainsHomage Book:The Analects Source: The Analects
“Moral epochs have their course as well as the seasons. We can no more hold them fast than we can hold sun, moon, and stars. Our faults perpetually return upon us; and herein lies the subtlest difficulty of self-knowledge.” WellsSelfLyingCoursesStarsMoralSunReturnMoonSeasonsDifficultyFaultsSelf KnowledgeMoon And StarsSun MoonSun Moon And Stars Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect, is in the first plane moral. What a world were this otherwise!” MenWorldFirstsBeautifulStarsMoralDestinyTalentMoralityEternalIntellectPlanesVisibleGleam Author:Thomas Carlyle
“If one might wish for impossibilities, I might then wish that my children might be well versed in physical science, but in due subordination to the fulness and freshness of their knowledge on moral subjects. ... Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.” IfsThinkingMindWellsChildrenMightEarthScienceWishStarsMoralSunSubjectsSonBlueRoundsDuesMy ChildrenMy SonPrincipalImpossibilityFreshnessPhysical ScienceFirmamentSubordination Author:Tom Arnold
“All the heavenly Bodies, the Stars and Planets, are regulated with the utmost Wisdom! And can we suppose less Care to be taken in the Order of the moral than in the natural System?” BodyCareOrderStarsNaturalMoralTakenPlanetsHeavenlyHeavenly BodiesStars And Planets Book:The Portable Benjamin Franklin Source: The Portable Benjamin Franklin