Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

When three walk together, one is surely my teacher. I follow what is good and correct what is not.

Knowing it is less than loving it; loving it is less than delighting in it.

The exemplary person demands it of himself; the petty person demands it of others.

I transmit but do not create; I trust in and love the ancients.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

-- Socrates

No one desires evil.

-- Socrates

Ethics is the ground of being of human community — the way of aidagara (betweenness) between person and person.

-- Tetsuro Watsuji

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

-- John Stuart Mill

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

-- Benedictus de Spinoza

Compassion is the foundation of morality.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer