What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

Whoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.

There’s no one thing that is true. They’re all true.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

Fool! Don’t you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ‚em, confuse ‚em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?