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2. “Just as the Intellect concerns itself with Truth, so Taste informs us of the Beautiful while the Moral Sense is regardful of Duty. Of this latter, while Conscience teaches the obligation, and Reason the expediency, Taste contents herself with displaying the charms: – waging war upon Vice solely on the ground of her deformity – her disproportion – her animosity to the fitting, to the appropriate, to the harmonious – in a word, to Beauty.”
Edgar Allan Poe
Intellect, Morality, Aesthetics, Philosophical Insight, Ethical Reflection, Artistic Appreciation
3. “I believe, indeed, that what I could not refrain from saying to him on this head had the effect of inducing him to push on. While, therefore, I cannot but lament the most unfortunate and bloody events which immediately arose from my advice, I must still be allowed to feel some degree of gratification at having been instrumental, however remotely, in opening to the eye of science one of the most intensely exciting secrets which has ever engrossed its attention.” Edgar Allan Poe Knowledge, Responsibility, Consequence, Philosophical Insight, Scientific Inquiry, Ethical Reflection
6. “To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of what we choose, because we can never choose evil. We always choose the good, and nothing can be good for us without being good for all.” Jean-Paul Sartre Moral Choice, Existential Affirmation, Ethical Reflection, Choice, Ethics, Good
13. “If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth – beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals – would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?” George Bernard Shaw Animal Rights, Alien Perspective, Ethical Reflection, Animals, Rights, Aliens
17. “The means, it is said, will be justified by the end; but it is the means which define it, and if it is contradicted at the moment that it is set up, the whole enterprise sinks into absurdity.” Simone de Beauvoir Means And Ends, Ethical Reflection, Contradiction Challenge, Philosophical Inquiry, Action Consequences, Value Systems
23. “SOCRATES: First, then, let us consider whether the doing of injustice exceeds the suffering in the consequent pain: Do the injurers suffer more than the injured? POLUS: No, Socrates; certainly not.” Plato Injustice And Suffering, Ethical Reflection, Philosophical Dialogue, Moral Insight, Justice Philosophy
27. “Now in the days of Cronos there existed a law respecting the destiny of man, which has always been, and still continues to be in Heaven, – that he who has lived all his life in justice and holiness shall go, when he is dead, to the Islands of the Blessed, and dwell there in perfect happiness out of the reach of evil; but that he who has lived unjustly and impiously shall go to the house of vengeance and punishment, which is called Tartarus.” Plato Justice And Destiny, Afterlife Philosophy, Moral Life, Divine Law, Ethical Reflection
Ethical Reflection Quotes by Famous Authors
2. “Just as the Intellect concerns itself with Truth, so Taste informs us of the Beautiful while the Moral Sense is regardful of Duty. Of this latter, while Conscience teaches the obligation, and Reason the expediency, Taste contents herself with displaying the charms: – waging war upon Vice solely on the ground of her deformity – her disproportion – her animosity to the fitting, to the appropriate, to the harmonious – in a word, to Beauty.”
Edgar Allan Poe Intellect, Morality, Aesthetics, Philosophical Insight, Ethical Reflection, Artistic Appreciation
3. “I believe, indeed, that what I could not refrain from saying to him on this head had the effect of inducing him to push on. While, therefore, I cannot but lament the most unfortunate and bloody events which immediately arose from my advice, I must still be allowed to feel some degree of gratification at having been instrumental, however remotely, in opening to the eye of science one of the most intensely exciting secrets which has ever engrossed its attention.”
Edgar Allan Poe Knowledge, Responsibility, Consequence, Philosophical Insight, Scientific Inquiry, Ethical Reflection
6. “To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of what we choose, because we can never choose evil. We always choose the good, and nothing can be good for us without being good for all.”
Jean-Paul Sartre Moral Choice, Existential Affirmation, Ethical Reflection, Choice, Ethics, Good
13. “If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth – beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals – would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?”
George Bernard Shaw Animal Rights, Alien Perspective, Ethical Reflection, Animals, Rights, Aliens
17. “The means, it is said, will be justified by the end; but it is the means which define it, and if it is contradicted at the moment that it is set up, the whole enterprise sinks into absurdity.”
Simone de Beauvoir Means And Ends, Ethical Reflection, Contradiction Challenge, Philosophical Inquiry, Action Consequences, Value Systems
23. “SOCRATES: First, then, let us consider whether the doing of injustice exceeds the suffering in the consequent pain: Do the injurers suffer more than the injured? POLUS: No, Socrates; certainly not.”
Plato Injustice And Suffering, Ethical Reflection, Philosophical Dialogue, Moral Insight, Justice Philosophy
27. “Now in the days of Cronos there existed a law respecting the destiny of man, which has always been, and still continues to be in Heaven, – that he who has lived all his life in justice and holiness shall go, when he is dead, to the Islands of the Blessed, and dwell there in perfect happiness out of the reach of evil; but that he who has lived unjustly and impiously shall go to the house of vengeance and punishment, which is called Tartarus.”
Plato Justice And Destiny, Afterlife Philosophy, Moral Life, Divine Law, Ethical Reflection
