Ethical Instinct Quotes

The moral sense is a natural faculty in us like the sense of smell or of touch.

Morality has been conceived up to the present in a very narrow spirit, as obedience to a law, as inner struggle between opposite laws. As for me, I declare that when I do good I obey no one, I fight no battle and win no victory. The cultivated person has only to follow the delicious incline of his or her inner impulses. Be beautiful and then do at each moment whatever your heart may inspire you to do. This is the whole of morality.

I only knew that there was a certain rightness in life--the feeling you got when you did something the way you knew you should.

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.

Jesus did not get stuck in intellectual arguments with people. He did not go for the intellect; He went for the conscience. He spoke to that part of the person that knows the difference between right and wrong instinctively.

A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.

Humans are born with a hard-wired morality: a sense of good and evil is bred in the bone. I know this claim might sound outlandish, but it's supported now by research in several laboratories.

Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes.

The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.