Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. — Oscar Wilde Are you a moral person? If you’re like most people (which most people are), you tend to overestimate how ethical you are compared to others. Maybe you’re moral in one situation, but a little immoral in another. Maybe you act ethically around one set…
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. — Gilbert Chesterton As the U.S. media proclaims these days, “we are a country divided.” From nationwide protests on the election outcome to voting differences unsettling marriages, it seems these days that donkeys and elephants couldn’t be more distinct species. But for as different as we seem, there is a…
Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances. — Martin Luther King Jr. Ah, the timeless and heavily influential question: Which picture should you select for your facebook profile? I mean, this is the photo with the best chance at garnering your greatest number of “likes” so…
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right. — Isaac Asimov I have a confession to make: For the first time in almost 20 years, I killed a spider. And the guilt is tearing me apart. Now, for most of you, your first assumption was probably that I’m crazy—but…
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. – Thomas Huxley I have been going around citing a quotation recently (no, not that one above), that may in fact be made-up. Although devising things to impress others is not new to me (in the form of short stories, mind you, not…
I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it. — G. K. Chesterton I woke up at 6:43am this morning to a mouse nibbling on Ritz cracker crumbs that had fallen on my blanket the prior night while watching Battlestar Galactica. All…