Ken Wilber Quotes

If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all.

I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

Each man must grant himself … the morality that suits him.

I think morality is so individual and personal, and people draw their own lines of what that means for them.

My mother's bottom line was truth to her values. It meant bringing your heart and your humanity to work.

Conscience is better served by a myth.

If we are not to abandon values such as peace and equality, or our commitments to science and truth, then we must pry these values away from claims about our psychological makeup that are vulnerable to being proven false.

For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself.

It is better to will the good than to know the truth.

Morality is truth in full bloom.

You can't have responsibility and you can't have us living up to our ideals unless it's based on a fairly common acceptance of truth, of what is true - what is the truth here?

There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.

Evil depends on where you're standing.

Everything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats his neighbor is as innocent as the child who sucks his barley-sugar.

I lay down the Position, That whatever a Conscience well directed allows us to do for the Advancement of Truth, an erroneous Conscience will warrant for advancing a suppos'd Truth.

Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.

It's better to be a good person than a famous person.

Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.

It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

Goodness shapes our will, and truth shapes our understanding.

Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

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

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.