Virtue Quotes - Page 30

• As far as I know, there is no proof whatever of the existence of an objective reality apart from our senses, and I do not see why we should accept the outside world as such solely by virtue of our senses.

  M. C. Escher

  Reality, World, Accepting

  "On Being a Graphic Artist" by M. C. Escher,

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• Don't undo a brave and noble deed. Don't rob yourself of your own virtue.

  James Lee Burke

  Brave, Noble, Deeds

  James Lee Burke (2011). “The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.429, Simon and Schuster

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• The good life for man is the life spent in seeking for the good life for man, and the virtues necessary for the seeking are those which will enable us to understand what more and what else the good life for man is.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Good Life, Men, Seeking

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.254, A&C Black

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• ...virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am sensible, that, according to the past experience of mankind, friendship is the chief joy of human life and moderation the only source of tranquillity and happiness.

  David Hume

  Past, Joy, Mind

  David Hume, Peter Millican (2008). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”, p.102, Oxford University Press

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• The art of poetry consists in taking the poem through draft after draft, without losing its inspirational magic: he removes everything irrelevant or distracting, and tightens up what is left. Lazy poets never carry their early drafts far enough: some even believe that virtue lies in the original doodle scrawled on the back of an envelope.

  Robert Graves

  Art, Lying, Believe

  Robert Graves (1960). “Food for Centaurs: Stories, Talks, Critical Studies, Poems”

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• The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in... the part he plays.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Play, Actors

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• Truth is not a virtue, but a passion. It is never charitable.

  Albert Camus

  Passion, Truth Is, Charitable

  Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

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• Whatever happens, the path of virtue should not be given up.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Path, Given, Should

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• Virtue has needs of limits.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Needs, Limits

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• Virtue is the fragrance of the flowers which the tree of life puts forth. Educated people must be identified in society by their strict adherence to virtue, not by more skilled methods of escaping the consequences of vice.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Flower, Escaping, People

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• Virtue is the panacea for both body and mind. The virtuous person can be both healthy and happy. How is virtue to be cultivated? How can it express itself in daily practice? Through service to living beings, through seva. Virtue must flow through the triple channel of love, mercy and detachment, in order to feed the roots of seva.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Order, Practice, Roots

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• The superior man... does not set his mind either for or against anything, he will pursue whatever is right. The superior man thinks of virtue, the common man of comfort.

  Confucius

  Men, Thinking, Mind

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• All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Ignorance, Men, Effort

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “War and Peace”, p.1371, Modern Library

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• Praying that does not result in right thinking and right living is a farce. We have missed the whole office of prayer if it fails to purge our character and correct conduct. We have failed entirely to understand the virtue of prayer, if it does not bring about the revolutionizing of life. In the very nature of tings, we must either quit praying or quit our bad conduct.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Character, Thinking

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• Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.

  Seneca the Younger

  Practice, Training, Firsts

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• But the virtues we get by first exercising them, as also happens in the case of the arts as well. For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them, e.g. men become builders by building and lyre players by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

  Aristotle

  Art, Exercise, Men

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2590, Delphi Classics

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• If you don't have courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues.

  Tavis Smiley

  Practice, Acorns, Oak Tree

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Beatitudes, far from being a new set of virtues that further divide the religious haves and have nots, are words of hope and healing to those who have been marginalized.

  James Bryan Smith

  Religious, Healing, Haves And Have Nots

  James Bryan Smith (2010). “The Good and Beautiful Life: Putting on the Character of Christ”, p.56, InterVarsity Press

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• Art is the inheritance of every individual, it activates evolutionary growth, it is an intellectual virtue, and the fostering principle for all that is made, done, or known.

  Alonzo King

  Art, Intellectual, Growth

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• To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them.

  Charles Palliser

  Betrayed, Betray

  Charles Palliser (2015). “Betrayals”, p.264, Hachette UK

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• Fathers are so necessary as examples and guides for our children in wisdom and virtue. Without father figures, young people often feel orphaned; left adrift at a critical moment in their growth and development.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Father, People

  "A society without fathers is a society of orphans, Pope Francis says". www.patheos.com. January 28, 2015.

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• Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Appreciation, Irony, Your Favorite

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch-22: A Memoir”, p.252, Hachette UK

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• Fortune provides a man's table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.

  Democritus

  Men, Luxury, Meals

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• The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Patriotism, Noble, Liable

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.8, Hayes Barton Press

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• In the middle of a dessert, no one talks about the virtues of the Sun!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Sun, Dessert, Middle

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