The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned

No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist.

To be intuitive is to possess a godly characteristic, to be bad at second-guessing the good.

Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

La conscience morale de l’humanité progresse, lentement mais sûrement...

If I am disobeying orders, I'd rather be with God against men than with men against God.

The witness of solid moral character to a righteous way of life must never be underestimated.

My sexuality is not an inferior trait that needs to be chaperoned by emotionalism or morality.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.

Above all else, above the mechanics, even, a doctor should be thoroughly grounded in morality.

Some people are thoroughly self-centred. This thing goes with me. I need it for moral support.

We will embarrass our descendants, just as our ancestors embarrass us. This is moral progress.