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Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.
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Ethics thought out is religious thought; ethics felt out is religious feeling, and ethics lived out is the religious life.
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Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that
good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.
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How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life,
when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes
truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst
of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life
would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making
your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a
moral.
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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just
don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an "ethic."
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You know what they say: if God had been a Liberal, we wouldn't have had the ten commandments. We'd have had the ten
suggestions.
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We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by doing a deed; (2) by experiencing a value; and (3) by
suffering.
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Let me give you the definition of ethics: it is good to maintain life and to further life. It is bad to damage and destroy
life. And this ethic, profound and universal, has the significance of a religion. It is religion.
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Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.
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All my growth and development led me to believe that if you really do the right thing, and if you play by the rules, and if
you've got good enough, solid judgment and common sense, that you're going to be able to do whatever you want to do with your
life.
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he true is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as the right is only the expedient in the way of our
thinking.
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Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you
can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.
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You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
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A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from
injuring anything that lives.
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Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
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We ought always to deal justly, not only with those who are just to us, but likewise to those who endeavor to injure us; and
this, for fear lest by rendering them evil for evil, we should fall into the same vice.
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
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Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
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