Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent… Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight.

Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.

Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview.

Morality is truth in full bloom.

Principles are not less sacred because their duration cannot be guaranteed.

We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life.

Morality can muddle mystical understanding and virtue is only necessary in so far as it favours success. All wisdom must be encompassed in order to achieve enlightenment.

Is not virtue a negation of becoming?

What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none.

Morality has nothing in common with politics.

Philosophy is fundamentally about how you come to terms with living your life and trying to do it in a wise manner, and, for me, that means decently and compassionately and courageously and so forth.

Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.

Ethics is inescapable.

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.

He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

Economics and ethics have little in common.

You can't slice up morals.

Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life

...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.

What is the highest good in all matters of action? To the name, there is almost complete agreement; for uneducated and educated alike call it happiness, and make happiness identical with the good life and successful living. They disagree, however, about the meaning of happiness.

Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.

Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

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