"The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil."

Bataille, Georges | Morality | 3 bookmarks

"For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded."

Eliot, T. S. | Consequences | 1 bookmarks

"Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided."

Locke, John | Humankind | 1 bookmarks

"We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us."

Locke, John | Influence | 2 bookmarks

"Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain."

Locke, John | Parents and Parenting | 2 bookmarks

"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts."

Locke, John | Thoughts and Thinking | 4 bookmarks

"There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify -- so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish."

Keats, John | Human Nature | 2 bookmarks

"No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him."

Hill, Napoleon | Judgment and Judges | 2 bookmarks

"Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."

Roosevelt, Eleanor | Life and Living | 1 bookmarks

"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."

James, Henry | Life and Living | 1 bookmarks