I just do what I do because it feels right. Other people attach labels to that.
Underlying all the explanations, intellectual constructions and self-delusions, we can still know a good man when we see one.
The moral sense is a natural faculty in us like the sense of smell or of touch.
I'm very interested in why we do good things, or bad things, and where moral judgments come from.
I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and think what we ought to do about it.
Conscience is ... the God dwelling in us.
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous.
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart! A god whispers quite softly in our breast, softly yet audibly; telling us what we ought to seek and what to shun.
Conscience: A small, still voice that makes minority reports.
People know the difference between good and evil in their hearts-if they search them. Religions twist good and evil. Their differences are the kind that need to be taught because they aren't natural.
Deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, "There is something not right," no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or moral code.
It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity.
What is right is not derived from the rule, but the rule arises from our knowledge of what is right
Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.
Very ancient parts of the brain are involved in moral decision making.
Conscience is the pulse of reason
Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.
Ordinary morality is innate in my view.
Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not - and a puppy has none. We acquire moral sense, when we do, through training, experience, and hard sweat of the mind.
Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.
Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion.
Some people should die that's just unconscious knowledge.
I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.
The notion of humans as inherently rational beings has been not only trashed in economics, but trashed in all the best research on moral decision-making.
