What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?
Bernhard SchlinkTo recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: ethics philosophy nietzsche tradition
A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.
Friedrich NietzscheI obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself
Friedrich NietzscheOne must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: ethics nietzsche dogmatism
People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.
Stephen KingPleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.
Oscar WildeTags: ethics
What men do matters more than what they know.
John ChristopherTags: ethics
For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.
Ursula K. Le GuinPeople often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.
Isaac Bashevis SingerTags: vegetarianism ethics vegetarian
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