August Maurice Barres Quotes

Morals, not Art or Literature.

Love is not a higher quality than truth.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

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

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

I'm a humanist.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds - and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of well-being and suffering in this universe.

I am not dead inside. I still care about right and wrong.

As long as I'm a good person and I do things from the heart, that's all that matters.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.

As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism.