Consequentialists And Deontologists Quotes & Sayings

The philosopher Edmund Pincoffs has argued that consequentialists and deontologists worked together to convince Westerners in the twentieth century that morality is the study of moral quandaries and dilemmas. Where the Greeks focused on the character of a person and asked what kind of person we should each aim to become, modern ethics focuses on actions, asking when a particular action is right or wrong ... This turn from character ethics to quandary ethics has turned moral education away from virtues and toward moral reasoning. If morality is about dilemmas, then moral education is training in problem solving. — Jonathan Haidt

Romance is always young. — John Greenleaf Whittier

To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the same state is a vain presumption; indeed they all seem to be perpetually changing and moving in a circular course. Spring is followed by summer, summer by autumn, and autumn by winter, which is again followed by spring, and so time continues its everlasting round. But the life of man is ever racing to its end, swifter than time itself, without hope of renewal, unless in the next that is limitless and infinite. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

You can't find peace by hiding from life — Nicole Kidman

Had Fane done some Romanian voodoo on her? 'Cause she would so do some voodoo up on his ass if he did. — Quinn Loftis

The nature of God is something that is of serious interest to believers, to theologians, and to philosophers. And yet we can't come to the nature of God, unless we also have some knowledge of the nature of the universe as having come from God. — George Coyne

Just when I thought you couldn't get any dumber, you go and do something like this ... and totally redeem yourself! — Harry Dunn

For I am full of spirit and resolve to meet all perils very constantly. — William Shakespeare