Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes

There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

There's no such thing as morality.

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

To some people everything is permitted.

People have different concepts of the good life, and any attempt to impose one favored view will be contentious.

It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of either leads to the same practical result — ruthlessness in political life.

Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.

Base thy life on principle, not on rules.

Moral certainty is never more than probability.

We ought to see clearly that the end does justify the means

There is a difference … between the demise of morality laws and the demise of morality

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.

I myself have constantly refused to print anything that might countenance vice or promote immorality, though … I might have gotten much money.

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

I cannot tolerate immorality.

President Trump's critics call him an immoral lout. By strict moral standards, so are we all.

Should there be double standards in the world? Maybe.

I don't believe in morality . I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw.

moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

The life of West, Nietzsche said, is based on Christianity. The values of the West are based on Christianity. Some of these values seem to have taken a life of their own, and this gives us the illusion that we can get rid of Christianity and keep the values. This, Nietzsche says, is an illusion...Remove the Christian foundation, and the values must go too.

Never presume yours is a better morality.

Every mind has its particular standard of good and bad, and of right and wrong. This standard is made by what one has experienced through life, by what one has seen or heard; it also depends upon one's belief in a certain religion, one's birth in a certain nation and origin in a certain race. But what can really be called good or bad, right or wrong, is what comforts the mind and what causes it discomfort. It is not true, although it appears so, that it is discomfort that causes wrongdoing. In reality, it is wrongdoing which causes discomfort, and it is right-doing which gives comfort.

The so-called new morality is too often the old immorality condoned.

The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.