“Does truth have a moral?”
Source: The Sea of Monsters
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“There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.”
Denis Diderot (1713–1784) French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist
As quoted in Dictionary of Foreign Quotations (1980) by Mary Collison, Robert L. Collison, p. 235
Felix Adler (1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer
Section 9 : Ethical Outlook
Founding Address (1876), Life and Destiny (1913)
Context: There may be, and there ought to be, progress in the moral sphere. The moral truths which we have inherited from the past need to be expanded and restated. In times of misfortune we require for our support something of which the truth is beyond all question, in which we can put an implicit trust, " though the heavens should fall." A merely borrowed belief is, at such time, like a rotten plank across a raging torrent. The moment we step upon it, it gives way beneath our feet.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe book Elective Affinities
Es gibt kein äußeres Zeichen der Höflichkeit, das nicht einen tiefen sittlichen Grund hätte. Die rechte Erziehung wäre, welche dieses Zeichen und den Grund zugleich überlieferte.
Bk. II, Ch. 5, R. J. Hollingdale, trans. (1971), p. 195
Elective Affinities (1809)
“Even if moral truths cannot affect people, they can still be truths.”
Derek Parfit book Reasons and Persons
Source: Derek Parfit, ‘Reasons and Motivation’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, supp. vol. 71 (1997), p. 111
June Jordan (1936–2002) Poet, essayist, playwright, feminist and bisexual activist
"Life After Lebanon" (1984), later published in On Call : Political Essays (1985), and Some of Us Did Not Die : New and Selected Essays of June Jordan (2002)
African Spir (1837–1890) Russian philosopher
or collapse, or failed
Source: Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937), p. 41.