Moral Concepts

Famous quotes containing the words moral and/or concepts:

“It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.”
—Thomas Paine (1737–1809)

“When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.”
—William James (1842–1910)