Quote of André Comte-Sponville: Morality answers the question, “What should...
Biography - André Comte-Sponville:
French philosopher.
Born: 1952
Period:
21st century
20th century
Place of birth: France
Born: 1952
Period:
21st century
20th century
Place of birth: France
Morality answers the question, “What should I do?”
Ethics answers the question, “How should I live?”
Ethics answers the question, “How should I live?”
Translation
(French, German)
See also...
Quotes for: to live
To live without philosophizing is properly to have one's eyes closed and never attempt to open them.
A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.
Quotes for: question
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
Quotes about ethics:
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values.
Quotes for: morality
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and reverence, the more often and more steadily one reflects on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
All our dignity consists, then, in thought. By it we must elevate ourselves, and not by space and time which we cannot fill.
Let us endeavour then to think well; this is the principle of morality.
Let us endeavour then to think well; this is the principle of morality.
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