William Whewell Quotes

It’s a good thing when you don’t dare do something if you don’t think it’s right. But it’s not good when you think something’s not right because you don’t dare do it.

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.

The nature of morality must be considered, and preferably before one is exposed to situations where a moral decision is required.

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

I still believe that something is right only when it feels right.

You have to follow your moral compass: it's a good guide of telling you what is right and wrong.

The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.

[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

I certainly know the difference between right and wrong.

I shook my head. “I don’t think so. This isn’t a good idea. This isn’t right.” “There’s all kinds of right,” he murmured. “On the spectrum, we’re still in the safe zone.” ... “Definitely right. Usually right,” Patch continued. “Mostly right. Maybe right.

Conscience is merely our own judgment of the right or wrong of our actions, and so can never be a safe guide unless enlightened by the word of God.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

At the end of the day, if there are truly ethical considerations, those have to override scientific considerations.

Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.

I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future.

My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.

I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and think what we ought to do about it.

Go by your own conscience.

It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.

Conscience is the highest of all Courts.

doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right

If the Soviet Government orders me to act against my conscience, I do not obey …. Conscience is above the law. No law which is against the conscience can bind.

If you say morality is just what you like, you lose the metaphysical level of what in the history of philosophy is called 'categorical imperative.'