Otto Weininger Quotes

Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.

Philosophers and theologians have yet to learn that a physical fact is as sacred as a moral principle. Our own nature demands from us this double allegiance.

There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules

To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.

I learned from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus the very right to live accrues to us only when we do the duty of citizenship of the world. From this one fundamental statement, perhaps it is easy enough to define the duties of Man and Woman and correlate every right to some corresponding duty to be first performed. Every other right can be shown to be a usurpation hardly worth fighting for.

We are God's creation, and we have a responsibility to keep ourselves at our best.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Uncontrolled technology can certainly bring down disaster, perhaps irreparable, on our race. The only protection against it is a growth in man's spiritual and moral maturity proportionate to his growth in technical skill and power.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

The duties are even more important than the rights; and in the long run I think that the reward is ampler and greater for duty well done, than for the insistence upon individual rights.

What is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator.

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom

Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.

The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.

Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic. The Blow that should rouse, stuns me.

When we pray for any virtue, we should cultivate the virtue as well as pray for it; the form of your prayer should be the rule of your life; every petition to God is a precept to man. Look not, therefore, upon your prayers as a method of good and salvation only, but as a perpetual monition of duty. By what we require of God we see what he requires of us.

Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer.

Stern daughter of the voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring and reprove.

To secure integrity there must a lofty sense of duty and a deep responsibility to future times as well as to God.

There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you don't want to do it - it isn't right. If it's right and you don't want to do it - you don't know what right is and you're not a man.

If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.

To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and to civilization itself.

Holiness is not the luxury of a few people, but a simple duty for you and me.