Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
Morality is not properly the doctrine how we should make ourselves happy, but how we should become worthy of happiness.[Moral nicht eigentlich die Lehre, wie wir uns glücklich machen, sondern wie wir der Glückseligkeit würdig werden sollen.]
Moral wounds have this peculiarity, – they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will overbalance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
In every age immorality has found no less support in religion than morality has.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion is in contact with any point of actuality.
If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to bre1k them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that Will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
Fear is the mother of morals.
Compassion is the basis of morality.
