Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

The man, who in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.

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.'

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

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

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it.

You make a deal. You figure out how much sin you can live with.

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

The ends do not justify the means. The means are the ends.

The truth about torture is that when government agents are given a green light to treat other human beings without the most basic respect for their dignity, they will inevitably engage in abuse. Torture transgresses the most basic of moral principles: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. The only way to live with the practice, from the interrogator’s point of view, is to deny the humanity of those being subjected to it.

Our moral philosophy determines our values - what we care about and what we don't care about - and our values determine our decisions, actions, and beliefs. Therefore, moral philosophy applies to everything in our lives.

What are the values that give meaning? What is the line that you will never cross, because on this side you're good, and on this side you're evil.

Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments.

moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

And here I always thought morality was useless.

Life is not yours to take.

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

There is a universal moral law, as distinct from a moral code, which consists of certain statements of fact about the nature of man, and by behaving in conformity with which, man may enjoy his true freedom.

Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

I've no objection to morality, except that it's obsolete.

I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.