Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

As a Roman philosopher, Cicero, said of him a few hundred years later, Socrates 'called philosophy down from the sky and established her in the towns and introduced her into homes and forced her to investigate life, ethics, good and evil.

I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said--and did not say.

I conceived 'All Is Song' as a modernised, loosely interpreted version of Socrates's life.

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.

Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.

I have no evidence that libertarianism leads to a better life. I just think it is morally right.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

First, philosophy concerns itself with all kinds of issues that don't get much airtime in day-to-day life. What's the nature of reality? Can we ever truly know anything, and if so, how? What does it mean to be a moral agent? And while we're at it, is there any such thing as agency anyway?

When you think of it, really there are four fundamental questions of life. You've asked them, I've asked them, every thinking person asks them. They boil down to this; origin, meaning, morality and destiny. 'How did I come into being? What brings life meaning? How do I know right from wrong? Where am I headed after I die?'

I think that fiction is an excellent place for us to struggle with questions of good and evil, and humanity and inhumanity.

The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.

I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.

If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.

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

Good and evil exists everywhere.

Try to live as if there were a God

Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

Late on the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset, ..., there flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the phrase “Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben” (“reverence for life”).