"Morality is not a large, constructed *thing* you have or have not, but simply a capacity. Something you carry with you in your brain and in your hands."
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"[Albert Camus] was viewed by many as an austere moralist, but it was on the football pitch and in the theatre that he learnt his 'morality'. It's something sensed, it won't pass uniquely through thought. It couldn't possibly."
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"Religion is not just incongruent with morality, but in essential ways incompatible with it."
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"History is a tragegy, not a morality tale."
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"Religion gets its morality from us. We don't get our morality from religion."
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"First the pork chops, then morality"
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"For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy"
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"Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality."
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"True eloquence makes light of eloquence. True morality makes light of morality."
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"True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality; that is to say, the morality of the judgment, which has no rules, makes light of the morality of the intellect.... To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher."
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"Our true dignity consists — in thought. Thence we must derive our elevation, not from space or duration. Let us endeavor then to think well; this is the principle of morals."
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"Morality has nothing in common with politics."
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"A society that is not founded on morality falls apart and becomes easy prey to puritan cults such as Islam that on the surface, promote family values and morality."
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"Knowledge is truthful only if it’s based in morality."
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"I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are."
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"Therefore the great mediator of any community is human morality."
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"Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality"
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"Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience."
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"My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live."
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"...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide to action nor a standard of morality."
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