One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house.
Jean GenetTags: power prostitution virtue corruptibility
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. Therefore atheism did never perturb states; for it makes men wary of themselves, as looking no further: and we see the times inclined to atheism (as the time of Augustus Cæsar) were civil times. But superstition hath been the confusion of many states, and bringeth in a new primum mobile, that ravisheth all the spheres of government. The master of superstition is the people; and in all superstition wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.
Francis BaconTags: practice morality philosophy religion atheism virtue government sense superstition wise argument reputation laws confusion caesar monarchy piety civil master augustus-caesar natural-piety
Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other animals. It's our need to believe and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. ... Out of all the virtues, all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated
Christopher HitchensTags: religion faith atheism virtue animal mammals
Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
EpictetusTags: wisdom philosophy virtue goodness good-deeds epictetus
Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don't have the warpings of ignorance and necessity.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTags: money beauty courage virtue necessity ignorance privilege honor aristocracy
Gratitude becomes spiritual, a spiritual virtue and a spiritual emotion, when we are moved in our response by a God-centered view of the three: gift, recipient, and giver. – p. 56
Ray A.Tags: spiritual virtue emotion gratitude
If she did not wish to lead a virtuous life, at least she desired to enjoy a character for virtue, and we know that no lady in the genteel world can possess this desideratum, until she has put on a train and feathers and has been presented to her Sovereign at Court. From that august interview they come out stamped as honest women. The Lord Chamberlain gives them a certificate of virtue.
William Makepeace ThackerayTags: virtue satire funny social-commentary vanity-fair william-makepeace-thackeray
In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.
Os GuinnessTags: wisdom truth freedom humanity virtue excellence positive-freedom
Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
Anatole FranceWithersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet.
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