A : première lettre d’amour

Morale : Ce qu'il y a d'essentiel et d'inappréciable dans toute morale, c'est qu'elle est une contrainte prolongée. (Nietzsche) Soyez meilleurs, vous serez plus heureux. Voilà la plus puissante leçon de morale car elle est fondée sur l'intérêt. (Duc de Lévis)

Morale : Dès l’instant que j’eus copris que Dieu n’était pas encore mais qu’il devenait, et qu’il dépendait de chacun de nous qu’il devînt, la morale en moi fut restaurée. (André Gide, Journal, Gallimard)

Morale : Faut-il parler de "morale"?…le débat récurrent sur les valeurs ou la "quête de sens" me paraît assez vain… Il suggère l'idée d'un choix de pur confort… Comme si se présentait à nous l'étendue d'un possible - d'une "offre" éthique - dans lequel il suffirait d'opérer une sélection, à l'instar d'un pousseur de Caddie… Voyons un peu : quelles valeurs adopterons-nous demain ? Ou encore : à quelle sauce choisirons-nous d'accommoder nos vies ? ...Invoquer les valeur perdues ou les morales en faillite est devenu la routine consolatrice d'une modernité qui ne sait plus où elle en est… (Jean-Claude Guillebeaud, La Refondation du Monde, Seuil, p. 11-12)

Morale : Je ne peux comprendre une morale qui ne permette et n'enseigne pas le plus grand, le plus beau, le plus libre emploi et développement de nos forces. (André Gide)

Morale : La morale n’est donc pas à proprement parler la doctrine qui nous enseigne comment nous devons nous rendre heureux, mais comment nous devons nous rendre dignes du bonheur. (Emmanuel Kant) La révolution sera morale ou elle ne sera pas. (Charles Péguy) La vraie morale se moque de la morale. (Pascal, Pensées) Nous n’avons besoin de morale que faute d’amour. (André Comte Sponville) 

Morale : La morale n'est jamais achevée; elle se fait; l'esprit la découvre dans la religion. (Karl Jaspers) La morale est la science de ce que l'homme doit être en fonction de ce qu'il est. (P. Sertillanges)

Morale : La peur du jugement des autres est un des plus sûrs soutiens de la morale. (Gustave Lebon, Aphorismes du Temps présent) On éprouve parfois comme la nostalgie de ses antipodes moraux. (Jean Rostand, Carnet d'un biologiste)

Morale : L'action n'est pas la vie, mais une façon de gâcher quelque chose. La morale est la faiblesse de la cervelle. (Arthur Rimbaud, (Une Saison en Enfer)

Morale : Le véritable principe des actions des hommes… n'est autre chose que le tempérament, l'inclination naturelle pour le plaisir… le désir de plaire à quelqu'un… ou quelque autre disposition qui résulte du fond même de notre nature. (Bayle)

Morale : Notre morale? Une houppette pour nous mêmes, une étrille pour les autres. (Ernest Jaubert, Menuailles) Un livre de morale est comme une boutique de friperie : l'auteur y étale souvent les pensées d'autrui, mais il a grand soin de les retourner auparavant. (Baronne de Stassard, Pensées morales)

Morale : On a créé avec les pierres de la religion le bordel, et avec les briques de la loi, on a créé les prisons. (William Blake)

Morale : Si j'avais à écrire un livre de morale, il y aurait 99 pages blanches et sur la dernière j'écrirais : Il suffit d’aimer ! (Albert Camus) " La vraie morale se moque de la morale. (Pascal) Pour fortifier un cœur, il faut doubler la passion par la morale. (Mallarmé) Le vrai miroir de nos discours est le cours de nos vies. (Montaigne)

Morale, acceptable ? : Principles may be carefully articulated and ably presented but fail to persuade because they simply do not accord with experience. And an attractive new doctrine which expresses what many people are ready to hear and receive may lack firm intellectual and spiritual foundations. (Basil Mitchell, The Oxford Hist. of Christianity, p. 640)

Morale, base : A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. (Albert Einstein, "Religion and Science", New York Times Magazine, 09 November 1930)

Moralisateur : Il peggior sporco e' quello morale: istiga ad un bagno di sangue. (Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, poeta polacco satirico)

Moraliste : Le moraliste, en général, borne ses fonctions à celles d'une trompette de régiment : après avoir sonné la charge et fait beaucoup de bruit, il se croit dispensé de payer de sa personne. (Charles Lemesle, Misophilanthropopanutopies ou Tablettes d'un sceptique. in La pensée française (Cario et Régismanset), Mercure de France, 1921, p. 160)

Moralistes : Nos vrais moralistes n'ont pas fait de phrases, ils ont regardé et se sont regardés. Ils n'ont pas légiféré, ils ont peint. (Albert Camus, Préface aux oeuvres de Chamfort)

Moralistes : Nos vrais moralistes n'ont pas fait de phrases, ils ont regardé et se sont regardés. Ils n'ont pas légiféré, ils ont peint. (Albert Camus)

Moralité : Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something. (Henry David Thoreau)

Moralité : If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?

Moralité : Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. (Graham Greene) Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual. (Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science)

Moralité : The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying. (Thomas Henry Huxley) Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right. (William E. Gladstone)

Moralité : What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike. (Alfred North Whitehead)

Moralité différente 1 : Neuroscience is making us more aware of how morality is intertwined with our deepest emotions, our quickest intuitions. Sometimes we can trust these intuitions, but other times we may need to push them off. Neuroscience sheds light on how different moralities take shape in different brains, and how those moralities can then crash in each other, causing grief and confusion on all sides.

Moralité différente 2 : If we step away from illusions of moral realism, of our mistaken conviction that we perceive right and wrong the same way we perceive red and blue, there might be less grief and confusion in the world. We would do well instead to bear in mind how morality took shape over millions of years, as a profound concern for others. (Carl Zimmer, Soul Made Flesh, Free Press, 2004, p. 295)

Moralité du monde : The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. (Omar N. Bradley)

Moralité et guerre 1 : [American leaders] are perhaps not so much immoral as they are amoral. It's not that they take pleasure in causing so much death and suffering. It's that they just don't care ... the same that could be said about a sociopath. As long as the death and suffering advance the agenda of the empire, as long as the right people and the right corporations gain wealth and power and privilege and prestige, as long as the death and suffering aren't happening to them or people close to them then they just...

Moralité et guerre 2 : don't care about it happening to other people, including the American soldiers whom they throw into wars and who come home - the ones who make it back alive - with Agent Orange or Gulf War Syndrome eating away at their bodies. American leaders would not be in the positions they hold if they were bothered by such things. (William Blum)

Moralité fondement 1 : “How is it possible for a person with no faith to have a moral life?” I tried to say that there are basic, universal situations linked to our bodies – to speak, to eat, to sleep. If you analyse these universals, you recognize you wouldn’t be offended by those activities. At the same time, you recognize that you shouldn’t offend “the other” in those activities because you need the other. You need his glance, his recognition. Even the tormenter

Moralité fondement 2 : needs respect or devotion on the part of the tortured; otherwise, he couldn’t enjoy his sadistic activity. Because of this profound need we have for the other’s recognition, we are drawn to respect in the other what we want to be respected in us. That is the essential core of every ethics. (Umberto Eco, Original Minds, interview for CBC, 2003, p. 305)

Moralité selon Hume: The Enlightenment philosopher David Hume was the first to declare that we do not approve of good acts because we rationally recognize them as good, but because they just feel good. Likewise, we call things wrong because we have a feeling of disgust for them. Moral knowledge, Hume wrote, comes from an “immediate feeling and finer internal sense,” not a “chain of argument and induction.” (Carl Zimmer, Soul Made Flesh, Free Press, 2004, p. 291)

Moralité : Celui qui ne porte sa moralité que comme son meilleur vêtement ferait mieux d'être nu. (Khalil Gibran) J'ai souvent pensé que la moralité consiste essentiellement en le courage de faire un choix. (Léon Blum)

Moralité : Défiez-vous de l'homme qui trouve tout bien, de l'homme qui trouve tout mal, et encore plus de l'homme qui est indifférent à tout. (Johann Kaspar Lavater)

Moralité : La moralité n'est bien souvent qu'une affaire d'éclairage et tu es le gardien de ton propre phare. (Marcel Jouhandeau)

Moralité : Tout homme a un postérieur moral qu’il lui est pénible de montrer et qu’il cache aussi longtemps que possible, dans la culotte des bonnes manières. (Georg Lichtenberg, Aphorismes)

Moralité, 3 influences : So we must distinguish three things: first, the mores of a society, what most people consider right at a given time and place; second, current legislation on moral matters; third, the moral judgment of an enlightened conscience on what is true and good. (J.-M. Lustiger, Dare to live, p. 17)

Moralité, acquisition : As children are learning languages, they are also picking up the particular morality of their culture. They end up with both a mother tongue and a mother morality. These intuitions make us judge other people in certain ways, and they influence how we conduct our personal lives. But if the brain’s circuitry is damaged, these intuitions may not form, and a child may not develop into a moral adult. (Carl Zimmer, Soul Made Flesh, Free Press, 2004, p. 292).

Moralité, bases 1 : Immanuel Kant argued that reason alone showed that morality boiled down to a few rules: that we must not use other people purely as a means to our own ends, ant that one should personally follow a maxim only if it could be turned into a universal law. In later years, other philosophers, such as John Stuart Mill, found another explanation for right and wrong: they are measures

Moralité, bases 2 : of the happiness brought to the greatest number of people. While Mill and Kant might disagree about the foundations of morality, they greed on one thing: we make moral judgments by reasoning about right and wrong , which are part of the real world that lies outside the mind – a school of thought known as moral realism. (Carl Zimmer, Soul Made Flesh, Free Press, 2004, p. 290)

Moralité, but : The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.(Ayn Rand)

Moralité, choix : Calling themselves social intuitionists, Hume and Darwin argue that when people decide what is right or wrong, reasoning plays a minor role. Most of the time, moral judgments occur in the hidden world of unconscious emotional intuitions. These intuitions have a long evolutionary history in our primate ancestors. (Carl Zimmer, Soul Made Flesh, Free Press, 2004, p. 291)

Moralité, compétence  1 : Mon dernier commentaire, encore une fois, se réfère à l'héritage du radicalisme de gauche. Nous avons tous été convaincus que le radicalisme de gauche était le système nerveux central de toute moralité supérieure. La compétence morale suprême, se trouve là où l'indignation rencontre la bonne conscience et la volonté d'agir. C'est cette alliance-là qui fait exploser la dynamite subjective. Quand l'indignation se combine avec la volonté d'agir, la conviction

Moralité, compétence  2 : … d'une supériorité morale avec l'accès libre à un dépôt d'armes, c'est la catastrophe. Or, il s'avère que les perdants incendiaires n'ont pas toujours raison. Il ne faut pas oublier que le radicalisme de gauche est une mythologie du perdant. Plus on perd, plus on a raison. Sans cette autojustification de la bonne conscience de gauche, ce radicalisme ne fonctionnerait pas. (Peter Sloterdijk, Le Figaro, oct. 2003)

Moralité, des forts : Is not the prevailing morality mostly the morality of the rulers, as Marx and Marxism declare in their criticism of the morality of a class society?

Moralité, normes : For no one begins at zero. Nor is this only because he is determi-ned by his environment, pre-programmed and driven by instinct. He belongs to a commu-nity, to a tradition. Even before him, people in very diverse conditions tried to live in a manner befitting human dignity… knowledge of the good, its norms, models, signs is conveyed to the individual by society. Hence neither philosophical nor theological ethics can simply create an ethos and impose it as binding on a large group of people.(Hans Küng, On Being a Christian, Wallaby, 1978, p.539-540)

Moralité, principe : Je n’insiste pas nécessairement sur ma liberté, mais j’évite le scandale pour le bien de la communauté, et le respect de la conscience de l’autre.

Mormons : Joseph Smith, a New York farm boy, saw two angelic personages who revealed to him some gold plates on which were written a book of revelation about North America – and he founded in 1830 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Mormons. A century and a half later it had almost four million American adherents, and had spread around the world. (Martin Marty, The Oxford Hist. of Christianity, p. 405)

Morphine : La morphine a été inventée pour permettre aux médecins de dormir tranquilles. (Sacha Guitry, Pensées, maximes et anecdotes)

Mort / sexe : Sexuality symbolizes beginnings; death is an ending. But eros and thanatos are deeply intertwined. In both the experience of sex and death, there is a letting go. In both there is an invitation and a threat in terms of loss of identity and absorption into something else. In both there is the radical question of the meaningt of our existence. In both there is a pornography, and in both a curtain of silence drawn around frank and open discussion of the subject. ( James B. Nelson, The Intimate Connection)

Mort : In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us. (Dag Hammarskjold)

Mort : And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce. (John Kenneth Galbraith) What the caterpillar calls the end, the butterfly calls the beginning.

Mort : As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. (Leonardo da Vinci)

Mort : Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident - It is as common as life. (Henry David Thoreau, 11 March 1842, letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson) It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind. (Jonathan Swift) Only when a tree has fallen can you take the measure of it. It is the same with a man. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)

Mort : Death is not a period but a comma in the story of life. Death is life's way of telling you you're fired. Death is not totally extinguishing the light but turning off the lamp because the dawn has come. / To live is to dream and to die is to awaken.(?)

Mort : Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not. (Epicurus) By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death. (Lucretius) A good death does honor to a whole life. (Petrarch) While you do not know life, how can you know about death? (Confucius)

Mort : Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.(Bonaparte) Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.(Andy Warhol) I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.(Churchill)

Mort : Death is psychosomatic. (Charles Manson, Esquire, 1971) Death is life's answer to the question 'Why?' (?)

Mort : Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly. (Jean Baudrillard)

Mort : Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. (Dag Hammarskjold, Markings, 1964)

Mort : If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death. (Samuel Butler) Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality. (William Ernest Hocking, The Meaning of Immortality in Human Experience)

Mort : Inscribed over his tomb Remember as you pass me by as you are now, so was I as I am now, you all will be so be prepared to follow me... (unknown Windhoek, Namibia)

Mort : It is hard to have patience with people who say "There is no death" or "Death doesn't matter." There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter. (Clive Staples Lewis)

Mort : On the death of my mother, I found a friend's thought apt and consoling: "You can't weep for people who have left more in life than they have taken out. (John J. McAleer)

Mort : The remedy for dirt is soap and water. The remedy for dying is living. (Chinese proverb)

Mort : To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they know quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know? (Socrates, Quoted in Apology, by Plato)

Mort : Une tombe ouverte, c'est peu profond. Quel homme pourtant s'est jamais penché sur elle sans vertige ? (Capitaine Garçot) Hélas, c'est une loi de la fatalité que chacun de nos pas mène à l'éternité. (Alexandre Dumas) A la mort, il ne nous reste que ce qu'on a donné. (S. Thérèse)

Mort : Your teeth chatter from the cold. Faint shadows that you are, how wrong it was to go to the trouble of giving you separate names. Your dying breath barely tarnishes the air, and yet you imagine it as your spirit "returning unto God who gave it". (Ugo Betti) The closest I've ever been to death was before I was born. (Ashleigh Brilliant)

Mort chrétienne : On a dit que la valeur religieuse d'une race se mesure à l'idée qu'elle se fait de la mort. A ce compte, aucune religion ne l'emporte sur le christianisme. La mort est le grand moment de l'existence chrétienne. Pour le chrétien, c'est elle qui est le vrai commencement. (Louis Gillet)

Mort chrétienne : Nulle part n’existe de contact aussi grand avec la mort que dans le christianisme. La crainte de la mort n’y est pas absente, mais elle s’est muée en une force capable de percer une brèche dans la tombe et d’en jaillir de l’autre côté. Ce n’est pas une contemplation de l’éternité, mais sa possession dans le combat, avec une seule arme : être prêt à mourir. (Siniavski, exilé de Sibérie, Pensées impromptues)

Mort conduit où ? : La fin de la vie place la vie la plus longue sur un pied d’égalité avec la plus courte. (...) La mort ne devient mauvaise que par la rétribution qui la suit. Ceux, donc, qui sont destinés à mourir doivent non pas s’enquérir de la sorte de mort que sera la leur, mais bien plutôt du lieu où la mort les conduira. (Saint Augustin)

Mort d’un enfant, épitaphe : It is so soon that I am done for, I wonder what I was begun for. (?) For a child aged three weeks Cheltenham Churchyard)

Mort d’un mari : Sono due i giorni in cui una donna è un piacere : il giorno in cui un uomo la sposa ed il giorno in cui la seppellisce. (Ipponatte)

Mort de Dieu : What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive? (Irv Kupcinet) Cosa si può dire di una società in cui molta gente è convinta che Dio sia morto e che Elvis sia vivo? (Ce sont peut-être les mêmes gens qui croient)

Mort de Dieu : « Dieu est mort ! » - de fatigue ? (Robert Sabatier, Le Livre de la déraison souriante, Albin Michel, 1991) Dieu, autrefois moins vivant qu’on ne l’a cru, est aujourd’hui moins mort qu’on ne le dit. (Jean Delumeau, Leçon inaugurale au Collège de France, 1975)

Mort de Dieu : Dieu est ce qui n’existe pas et qui pourtant s’impose… Dieu est l’absence devenue peau. dieu est l’intrus qui, malhonnête, s’invite aux obsèques de Dieu. (Alain Bosquet, Je ne suis pas un poète d’eau douce)

Mort de Jésus 1 : Easter message in all its different variations means simply one thing : Jesus did not die into nothingness. In death and from death he died into and was taken up by that incomprehensible ultimate reality which we designate by the name of God. When man reaches his eschaton, the absolutely final point in his life, what awaits him? Not nothing, as even believers in nirvana would say. But that All which for Jews, Christians and Muslims is God. Death is a transition to God, is retreat into God’s hiddenness

Mort de Jésus 2: … is assumption into his glory. Strictly speaking, only an atheist can say that death is the end of everything… death means complete unrelatedness. But, seen from God’s standpoint – from within, as it were – death means a totally new relationship: to him as the ultimate reality. In death a new and eternal future is offered to man, (Hans Küng, On Being a Christian, Wallaby, 1978, p.358)

Mort de plusieurs : La mort d'un homme est une tragédie. La mort d'un grand nombre relève de la statistique. (Staline)

Mort des amis : I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing act of theirs at all amusing. (Logan Pearsall Smith) Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral. (Kehlog Albran, The Profit)