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Moral philosophy, or ethics, is both the process and result of how we conceptualize “good” and “bad.” Almost all religious and philosophical traditions center on this fundamental question of humanity: how do we determine the “right” way to be a human being?

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FindCenterThere can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules.

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Albert Camus
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FindCenterAnd when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let go until it drags you face-first out of the dirt—this is not selfishness, but obligation.

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Elizabeth Gilbert
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FindCenterJust that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm. Tired or well-rested. Despised or honored. Dying . . . or busy with other assignments. Because dying, too, is one of our assignments in life.

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Marcus Aurelius
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FindCenterLife is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

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Marcus Aurelius
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FindCenterIf absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

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Albert Camus
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FindCenterOne cannot, at once, claim to be superhuman and then plead mortal error. I propose to take our countrymen’s claims of American exceptionalism seriously, which is to say I propose subjecting our country to an exceptional moral standard.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates
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FindCenterA person’s worth is measured by the worth of what he values.

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Marcus Aurelius
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FindCenterWhoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.

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Marcus Aurelius
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FindCenterThere is a line. It’s etched from dignity. And raging, fearful people from the right and left are crossing it at unprecedented rates every single day. We must never tolerate dehumanization—the primary instrument of violence that has been used in every genocide recorded throughout history.

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Brené Brown
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FindCenterOrdinary morality is only for ordinary people.

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Aleister Crowley
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