Mark Manson Quotes

Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

I try not to do anything that's immoral.

One needs to know what is right and what is wrong.

Right and wrong are not simply matters of evolutionary impacts and what is natural.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

The fundamental basis of ethics must be chosen in some non-scientific way.

The foundations of morality are like all other foundations: If you dig too much about them, the superstructure will come tumbling down.

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

I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Modern morality is all about perception.

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

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

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

I'd forgotten it's an important thing to give thought to your morality and how you intend to live your life.

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.

What we call “morals” is simply blind obedience to words of command.

Morality is a social necessity

I have a moral conscience that is real central.

Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people.

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

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.