William Masters Quotes

There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and what science is.

There is a moral dimension, for me, in anything that's any good.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

Conventionality is not morality.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

Right is right and wrong is wrong.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

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

Religion to me really means ethical systems.

It's not enough to have a skill. Not enough to have read all the books or know all the facts. Values are what really matter

The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.

Without a clear moral vision, we devolve into moral relativism, and from there, into oblivion.

Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I hadn't really thought of them as being philosophical questions, but one rapidly comes to an understanding that philosophy's only really about two questions: 'What is true?' and 'What is good?'

Principle is a passion for truth.

Conscience is better served by a myth.

The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition.

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.

Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning.

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

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

Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.

Morality is truth in full bloom.