Karl Ove Knausgard Quotes

Any time the character is in a moral quandary is interesting. That's been true from the Greeks on down.

Our ideals are our better selves.

I have a hard time with morals. All I know is what feels right, what's more important to me is being honest about who you are. Morals I get a little hung up on.

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

I kind of know who I am as a man. There's a value system I believe in.

You need to know your values.

I have tried hard to be a good person. It's something I live for.

Always listen to the voice of your conscience. If your conscience conflicts with your faith, question everything.

So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth.

You've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by your dead father and mother if I allowed you to expose yourself to such temptation.' Well, I know I'm not a Christian and I'm beginning to doubt whether I'm a gentleman,' said Philip.

This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds.

He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.

The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.

Conscience doth make cowards of us all.

I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.

I try to be a good person. I know what my downfalls are, so that's a good thing.

I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.

I don't believe in villains - just people who channel their energy in the wrong way.

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

My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness.

I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have moral principles. I have to sit down and reflect.

I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.