"All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified."
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"Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking."
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"Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious."
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"Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!"
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"Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers."
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"The beast in us must be[78] wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces."
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"I want to show that there are indeed some universal ethical principles which could help everyone to achieve the happiness we all aspire to."
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"An ethical act is one which does not harm others' experience or expectation of happiness."
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"What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had."
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".. the voice of nature and experience seems plainly to oppose the selfish theory."
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"It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events."
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"Ordinary morality is innate in my view."
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"Humanistic ethics is based on the principle that only humans themselves can determine the criterion for virtue and not an authority transcending us."
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"The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality."
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"I'm not much into rear window ethics."
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"In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do."
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"Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation."
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"Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting."
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"Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?"
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"Rise above principle and do what is right."
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