Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Men, Moral, Virtue

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2013). “Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics”, p.26, Westminster John Knox Press

• Our dreams of a pure virtue are dissolved in a situation in which it is possible to exercise the virtue of responsibility toward a community of nations only by courting the prospective guilt of the atomic bomb.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Dream, Responsibility, Exercise

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.551, Library of America

• I cannot worship the abstractions of virtue: she only charms me when she addresses herself to my heart, speaks through the love from which she springs.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Spring, Heart, Addresses

• There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and ``the good life,'' which had not been anticipated in our philosophy.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Good Life, Philosophy, Achievement

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2010). “The Irony of American History”, p.45, University of Chicago Press

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