Figurative expressions on the theme of morality. Aphorisms about morality. Statements and quotes about morality. Wise quotes about morality, aphorisms about morality that not everyone understands in our society

Morality is the mind of the heart.
Heinrich Heine

Ethics is the philosophy of good will, and not just good action.
Immanuel Kant

Morality is not a teaching about how we should make ourselves happy, but about how we should become worthy of happiness.
Immanuel Kant

Morality does not teach how to become happy, but how to become worthy of happiness.
Immanuel Kant

Ethics is an attempt to give universal validity to some of our desires.
Bertrand Russell

Morality is the basis of all human values.
Albert Einstein

Morality is not a list of actions and not a collection of rules that can be used like pharmaceutical or culinary recipes.
John Dewey

Ethics is the aesthetics of the soul.
Pierre Reverdy

Morality has always been the last refuge of people who are indifferent to art.
Oscar Wilde

The morality of peoples depends on respect for women.
Wilhelm Humboldt

Immorality is the morality of those who have a better time than we do.
Henry Louis Mencken

True ethics begins where the use of words ceases.
Albert Schweitzer

Two things always fill the soul with new and stronger wonder and awe, the more often and longer we think about them - this is the starry sky above me and the moral law in me.
Immanuel Kant

The highest possible stage of moral culture is when we realize that we are able to control our thoughts.
Charles Darwin

Everything that is beautiful is moral.
Gustave Flaubert

A person must be moral freely, which means that he must also be given some freedom to be immoral.
Vladimir Solovyov

The morality of a person is visible in his attitude to the word.
Lev Tolstoy

Ethics can be either active, creative, or passive, repentant, ethics of intolerance towards oneself and others, which can only delve into so-called sins; and sometimes shameful to be right.
Karol Izhikovsky

The moral qualities of a person must be judged not by his individual efforts, but by his daily life.
Blaise Pascal

No one can be completely free until everyone is free. No one can be perfectly moral until everyone is still moral. No one can be perfectly happy until everyone is still happy.
Herbert Spencer

Ethical behavior should be based on sympathy for people, education and social connections; a religious background is not needed at all.
Albert Einstein

Morality arose along with vice.
Wilhelm Humboldt

Act according to such a maxim, which at the same time may itself become a universal law.
Immanuel Kant


Arthur Schopenhauer

The strong trample on morality. Weak morality caresses. The one whom morality pursues always stands between the strong and the weak.
Akutagawa Ryunosuke

All religions base morality on obedience, that is, on voluntary slavery.
Alexander Herzen

Even death can be consent and therefore a moral act. The animal dies, the person must hand over his soul to its Creator.
Henri Amiel

Do not forget that the Lord's Prayer begins with a request for daily bread. It is difficult to praise the Lord and love your neighbor on an empty stomach.
Woodrow Wilson

Christian morality is tailored for growth. Unfortunately, people have stopped growing.
Felix Hwalibug

Preaching morality is easy, justifying it is difficult.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Virtue is its own reward.
Ovid

Morality must be a bitter fruit if we give it to wives and sisters.
Alexander Sventohovsky

An ascetic makes need out of virtue.
Friedrich Nietzsche

When a person is unhappy, he becomes moral.
Marcel Proust

The best punishment for virtue is virtue itself.
Aneurin Bevin

To be a patriot, one must hate all nations except one's own; to be a religious man, all sects except one's own; to be a moral person - all falsehood, except for one's own.
Lionel Strachey

Conscience usually torments not those who are guilty.
Erich Maria Remarque

Perhaps conscience is the source of morality, but morality has never been the source of what conscience considers good.
Akutagawa Ryunosuke

We always think of a moral position as vertical, and an immoral position as horizontal. "Weshalb?" I will ask in the language of Freud.
Stanislav Jerzy Lec

The morality of peoples depends on respect for women.

The highest goal of human aspirations is a highly moral character.

Morality should be the polar star of science.

If your moral principles make you sad, know that your moral principles are no good.

Morality has not fallen. Morality has changed position.

The morality of a nation is comparable to a toothache: the worse it is, the more painful it is to touch it.

Theoretical morality, which reveals itself in mere systems and words, but does not speak of itself as a deed, as a fact, emerging only from the contemplation of the mind, but not having deep roots in the heart - such morality is worth immorality.

Of all immoral relations in general, treating children as slaves is the most immoral.

Chic Morality Quotes

We recognize a person by his character, but we should recognize him by his moral character. However, a less moral person is recognized not by morality, but, on the contrary, by many other individual traits, which, apparently, represents his character.

Chic maxims and quotes about morality

In the field of morality, one should not show one's virtue on insignificant occasions: one does not brag about virginity.

Good politics is no different from sound morality.

If geometry were as contrary to our passions and interests as morality, then we would also argue against it and violate it in spite of everything.

The whole morality of a man lies in his intentions.

Man is born to work; labor constitutes his earthly happiness, labor is the best guardian of human morality, and labor must be the educator of man.

A person cannot be happy if his heart is agitated by disorderly desires; if the well-being of a neighbor arouses envy in him; greed makes him solicit someone else's, and ambition and hatred deprive him of peace of mind. From this follows the part of education which has as its subject the education of the heart and which scientists call moral education.

Only by destroying most religions can the foundations of sound morality be laid in states.

Moral education must develop the will.

There are people who treat morality as some architects treat houses: comfort comes first.

The power of moral influence is beyond all forces.

With regard to morality, only the following words of the sages of antiquity are the only true ones: to be moral means to live according to the customs of one's country.

Chic Ideas and Quotes About Morality

True morality is developed only in the school of misfortune; permanent happiness can easily become a fatal abyss for virtue.

True self-interest is achieved only by moral behavior.

Art has a moral effect not only because it gives pleasure through moral means, but also because the pleasure delivered by art is itself the path to morality.

Our respect for general rules morality is actually a sense of duty.

For our happiness to be complete, we need the affection and help of the people around us; the latter will agree to love and respect us, to help us in our plans, to work for our happiness only to the extent that we are ready to work for their well-being, this necessary connection is called a moral duty, a moral duty.

True eloquence neglects eloquence, true morality neglects morality.

Heroism that does not contradict good morality touches people little: only heroism that destroys morality arouses both surprise and delight in people.

The moral qualities of a person must be judged not by his individual efforts, but by his daily life.

It is a moral duty to resist any coercion to an immoral act.

If one cannot see in children the ideal of moral perfection, then at least one cannot but agree that they are incomparably more moral than adults.

At first, maternal education is most important, because morality should be planted in the child as a feeling.

Chic thoughts and quotes about morality

Morality is the soul of history.

Zealots of moral purity are overcome by dirty fantasies.

To be ashamed of one's immorality is one of the rungs of that ladder, at the top of which one is also ashamed of one's own morality.

It is not enough to define morality by being faithful to one's convictions. We still need to constantly raise the question in ourselves, are my beliefs true?

Wherever God is recognized, there is a cult, and where there is a cult, the natural order of moral duty is violated, and morality falls.

Morality is the mind of the will.

Only that which coincides with your sense of beauty and with the ideal in which you embody it is moral.

The more accidental our morality, the more necessary it is to take care of legality.

Genius is just as impossible without taste as character is without morality.

There are many kinds of education and development, and each of them is important in itself, but moral education should stand above all of them.

Absolute morality: everything is forbidden.

Morality is that part of philosophy which is much more interpreted and least of all practiced.

Every immorality stems from the collision of the good with the pleasant, the passions with the mind, and has its source in the strength of sensual impulses and the weakness of the moral will.

One must be clear mentally, clean morally and tidy physically.

Chic Advice and Quotes About Morality

Morality is the direction of the will towards common, universal goals. He who acts for a private purpose is immoral. He is moral whose goal can be set as the goal of all rational beings.

Genuine morality is directly poetic, and poetry, in turn, is indirectly moral.

One of the highest principles of true morality is respect for human dignity in every person, without distinction, first of all for the fact that he is a man, and only then for his personal merits.

By the name of morality we mean not only outward propriety, but also the whole inner basis of motivation.

Morality is affirmed among the people by a combination of spiritual, natural and political laws. Everything has an influence on it, and therefore it is compiled by a combination of right action citizens in all these various ratios.

Submission to truth, independent of personal interests and desires, is all honesty, all morality.

Morality must appear in the form of beauty.

In the field of morality, movement is not based on the pleasure of moving alone; there must also be a goal: to deny achieving perfection, that is, reaching the goal, would mean simply making movement impossible.

Two things always fill the soul with new and stronger wonder and reverence, the more often and longer we think about them - this is the starry sky above me and the moral law in me.
Immanuel Kant

Morality is reason.
Heinrich Heine

Ethics is the aesthetics of the soul.
Pierre Reverdy

Ethics is an attempt to give universal validity to some of our desires.
Bertrand Russell

Morality does not teach how to become happy, but how to become worthy of happiness.
Immanuel Kant

To be a patriot, one must hate all nations except one's own; to be a religious man - all sects except one's own; to be a moral person - all falsehood except his own.
Lionel Strachey

Morality has always been the last refuge of people indifferent to.

True morality neglects morality.
B. Pascal

Morality grows stronger when the flesh grows decrepit.
molière

sinlessness in pure form- husk,
I am single from the meaning of life,
After all, morality, which did not know sin, -
Just simple bad luck.
I. Huberman

People of higher morality do not consider themselves moral, therefore they have higher morality.
Lao Tzu

Moral people are the most vengeful people.
L. Shestov

With the help of a moral sense, a person distinguishes good from bad, and then decides how to act. What are the results of the choice? Nine times out of ten he chooses to do bad things.
Mark Twain

Own moral uncleanliness is a sign of contempt for oneself.
Apuleius

Only with strong, ideal aspirations can people fall morally low.
L. Tolstoy

For chaste people
Through mysterious currents
Sour in vain love juice
Goes to kefir moralizing.
I. Huberman

Two things always fill the soul with new and stronger wonder and reverence, the more often and longer we think about them - this is the starry sky above me and the moral law in me.

Immanuel Kant

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Only with strong, ideal aspirations can people fall morally low.

L. Tolstoy

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An ascetic makes need out of virtue.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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A sense of morality helps us understand the essence of morality and how to evade it.

Mark Twain

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Sinlessness in its purest form is a husk, Idle from the meaning of life, After all, morality, which did not know sin, Is just simple luck.

I. Huberman

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Morality is not a list of actions and not a collection of rules that can be used like pharmaceutical or culinary recipes.

John Dewey

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Preaching morality is easy, justifying it is difficult.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Morality is the mind of the heart.

Heinrich Heine

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No one can be completely free until everyone is free. No one can be perfectly moral until everyone is still moral. No one can be perfectly happy until everyone is still happy.

Herbert Spencer

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Morality has always been the last refuge of people who are indifferent to art.

Oscar Wilde

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True morality neglects morality.

B. Pascal

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A person must be moral freely, which means that he must also be given some freedom to be immoral.

Vladimir Solovyov

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Ethics is an attempt to give universal validity to some of our desires.

Bertrand Russell

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Virtue is its own reward.

Ovid

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Ethics is the aesthetics of the soul.

Pierre Reverdy

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Higher morality requires some freedom for immorality as well.

V. Solovyov

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The morality of peoples depends on respect for women.

Wilhelm Humboldt

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To be a patriot, one must hate all nations except one's own, to be a religious person - all sects except one's own, to be a moral person - all falsehood except one's own.

Lionel Strachey

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Ethics is either active, creative or passive, repentant, ethics of intolerance towards oneself and others, which can only delve into the so-called sins, and at times it is shameful to be right.

Karol Izhikovsky

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Moral people are the most vengeful people.

L. Shestov

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People of higher morality do not consider themselves moral, therefore they have higher morality.

Lao Tzu

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Own moral uncleanliness is a sign of contempt for oneself.

Apuleius

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In chaste persons By mysterious currents Sour in vain love juice Goes into kefir of moralizing.

I. Huberman

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The best punishment for virtue is virtue itself.

Aneurin Bevin

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Morality does not teach how to become happy, but how to become worthy of happiness.

Immanuel Kant

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With the help of a moral sense, a person distinguishes good from bad, and then decides how to act. What are the results of the choice? Nine times out of ten he chooses to do bad things.

Mark Twain

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Morality grows stronger when the flesh grows decrepit.

molière

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Immorality is the morality of those who have a better time than we do.

Henry Louis Mencken

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Christian morality is tailored for growth. Unfortunately, people have stopped growing.

Felix Hwalibug

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All publications and even books about morality, about how to behave in society, do not bring any benefit. Those who read them, that is, those who are educated, do not need them, moral freaks do not read them.

V. Zubkov

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Do not forget that the Lord's Prayer begins with a request for daily bread. It is difficult to praise the Lord and love your neighbor on an empty stomach.

Woodrow Wilson

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Even death can be consent and therefore a moral act. The animal dies, the person must hand over his soul to its Creator.

Henri Amiel

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Act according to such a maxim, which at the same time may itself become a universal law.

Immanuel Kant

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Morality must be a bitter fruit if we give it to wives and sisters.

Alexander Sventohovsky

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Text Sayings, aphorisms and quotes of the great and famous people" :

We always exaggerate the importance of the individual's life. There are many people who do not know what to do with life - it is not so immoral to deprive them of it.
Albert Camus
Life, Morality

To say that social progress produces morality is like saying that building stoves produces heat.
Lev N. Tolstoy
Morality, Progress

If a person is serious and sincere in the search for morality, then the first thing he should turn away from is meat-eating ... Vegetarianism is considered a criterion by which one can recognize how serious and true a person's desire for moral perfection is.
Lev N. Tolstoy
Vegetarianism, Morality

I counted many sects in the world. Of all
I have chosen a sect of love pleasures.
You are my God! Give me the joys of paradise
To merge with God, blazing with love, is not a sin!
Omar Khayyam
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A true friend must be our second self; he will never demand from a friend anything but morally beautiful; Friendship is given to us by nature, as an assistant in virtues, and not as a companion in vices.
Mark Tullius Cicero
Friend, Morality

Genuine morality is directly poetic, and poetry, in turn, is indirectly moral.
Jean Paul
Morality, Poet and Poetry

Morality is the flowering of truths.
Hugo Victor Marie

Morality is the mind of the heart.
Heinrich Heine
Morality, Morality and Morality

Morality must lie in character.
Immanuel Kant
Morality, Morality and Morality

He who advances in the sciences, but lags behind in morality, goes more backward than forward.
Aristotle
Knowledge, Wise Quotes, Morality

Morality is either conditional or paid on the spot.
Stanislav E. Lets
Morality, Morality and Morality

By the name of morality we mean not only outward propriety, but also the whole inner basis of motives.
Jan A. Comenius
Morality, Morality and Morality

You must definitely shake yourself up physically in order to be healthy morally.
Lev N. Tolstoy
Health, Morality

The highest possible stage of moral culture is when we realize that we are able to control our thoughts.
Benjamin Disraeli
Culture, Thoughts and Actions, Morality

It is one thing to lie, it is another thing to err in speech and deviate from the truth in words due to delusion, and not malicious intent.
Pierre Abelard
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Patience is a wonderful quality, but life is too short to endure for long.
Abu'l-Faraj bin Haroun
Morality, Integrity, Patience

The best praise is the one that comes from a person to whom you have done nothing good.
Abu'l-Faraj bin Haroun
Morality, Morality, Praise, Man

It is better to fall to the vultures than to fall to the flatterers. Those devour the dead, and these - the living.
Antisthenes
Flattery, Morality, Morality