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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.: Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677), The Ethics
The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.: Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677), The Ethics
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.: Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677), The Ethics
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.: Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677), The Ethics
The needs of society determine its ethics.: Maya Angelou (1928 - )
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Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.: Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965), Civilization and Ethics, Preface
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A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct. Whatever his acts, they are dictated by his own conscience, rather than by a mob of onlookers. It is difficult to exaggerate the importance of this fact.: Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
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Results from Cole's Quotables:

Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling.: Valdemar W. Setzer
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

Grub first, then ethics.: Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)

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