Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work. – Llewelyn Powys Category: Morality
The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy. – Goethe Category: Morality
The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom. – Michel de Montaigne, translated Category: Morality
It is with flowers, as with moral qualities: the bright-coloured are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet-smelling. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers Category: Morality
Any time you think you have the game conquered, the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose. – Mike Schmidt Category: Time
Not through wrath but through laughter one slayeth. – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), “Of Reading and Writing,” Thus Spake Zarathus Category: Laughter