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Biography - André Comte-Sponville:

French philosopher.
Born: 1952
Period:
21st century
20th century
Place of birth: France
France

We have need of morality only for want of love.
André Comte-Sponville


Note 

Note



We need morality only because we do not have enough love.



We have need of morality only for want of love.


Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Nous n'avons besoin de morale que faute d'amour.
André Comte-Sponville

German
Wir brauchen die Moral nur, weil es an der Liebe fehlt.
André Comte-Sponville



See also 

See also...



Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Carl Gustav Jung - Über die Psychologie des Unbewussten

Love, and do what you will.
Augustine of Hippo - Homilies on the First Epistle of John

What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil

Where all is well, there is no such thing as injustice. Justice and goodness are inseparable.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education

Love is the desire to give, not to receive, something.
Bertolt Brecht



Quotes for: love


Quotes

Quotes about love:


Love, love, all the rest is nothing.
Jean de La Fontaine - Les amours de Psyché et de Cupidon / 





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.
Blanche Pierson / 





Intelligence has value only in the service of love.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery / 





There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra / 





Don't forget to love yourself.
Soren Kierkegaard / 





Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Augustine of Hippo / 






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Quotes for: morality


Quotes

Quotes for: morality


Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and reverence, the more often and more steadily one reflects on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
Immanuel Kant - Critique of Practical Reason / 





Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / 





All our dignity consists, then, in thought. By it we must elevate ourselves, and not by space and time which we cannot fill.
Let us endeavour then to think well; this is the principle of morality.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 





Give and take pleasure, without harming yourself or anyone else — that, I think, sums up morality.
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées / 





It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain / 





Among moral qualities, true virtue alone is sublime.
Immanuel Kant / 






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André Comte-Sponville also said...


One is not born, but rather becomes, free.
André Comte-Sponville - Présentations de la philosophie / 





The opposite of humility is pride, and all pride is ignorance.
André Comte-Sponville - A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues / 





Happiness is the goal of philosophy. Or to be more precise, the goal of philosophy is wisdom, and therefore happiness.
André Comte-Sponville / 





Be confident: Truth is not the end of the way, it is the way itself.
André Comte-Sponville - Présentations de la philosophie / 





Philosophize, to think your life and to live your thoughts: for that is what philosophy is.
André Comte-Sponville / 





To tolerate is to take upon oneself; a tolerance that comes into being on the backs of others is no longer tolerance. To tolerate the suffering of others, to tolerate an injustice of which we are not a victim or an atrocity that we are spared is not tolerance but selfishness, indifference, or worse.
André Comte-Sponville - A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues / 







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