Virtue Quotes - Page 39

• I love him who reserveth no share of spirit for himself, but wanteth to be wholly the spirit of his virtue: thus walketh he as spirit over the bridge.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  I Love Him, Bridges, Spirit

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.22, e-artnow

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• I've found great virtue in two-thirds of the way into the message; right before I'm really want to nail home a point, pausing to tell a joke or to tell a light-hearted story, because I know my audience has been working with me now for 20 or 25 minutes. And if I can get them to laugh, get oxygen into their system, it wakes up those who might be sleeping, so there's something about using a story to draw people back in right before you drive home your final point. In that case I think it's real legitimate just to use a story for story's sake.

  Max Lucado

  Real, Sleep, Home

  Source: www.preaching.com

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• The American founders, when framing their governments, looked to the Bible for insights into human nature, civic virtue, social order, political authority and other concepts essential to the establishment of a political society. They saw in Scripture political and legal models - such as republicanism, separation of powers, and due process of law - that they believed enjoyed divine favor and were worthy of emulation in their polities.

  Daniel L Dreisbach

  Order, Law, Government

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• There is a moral virtue, a moral fidelity, ability and honesty, which other men, besides church members, are, by good nature and education, by good laws and good examples nourished and trained up in; so that civil places and trust and credit need not be monopolized into the hands of church members (who sometimes are not fitted for public office), while all others are deprived and despoiled of their natural and civil rights and liberties.

  Roger Williams

  Honesty, Men, Hands

  Source: www.libertymagazine.org

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• Another of our highly prized virtues is fidelity. We are immensely pleased with ourselves when we are faithful.

  I. A. R. Wylie

  Faithful, Fidelity

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• Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

  Saadi

  Tree, Wicked, Prison

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• The ties of virtue ought to be closer than the ties of blood, since the good man is closer to another good man by their similarity of morals than the son is to his father by their similarity of face.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Father, Son, Men

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• It is well known that obedience is the chief among the initiatory virtues, for first it displaces presumption and then it engenders humility within us. Thus it becomes, for those who willingly embrace it, a door leading to the love of God? Thus humility should be the first concern of those who are fighting against the presumption of the devil, for as we advance it will be a sure guide to all the paths of virtue.

  Diadochos of Photiki

  Christian, Humility, Fighting

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• Family values represent the core values and guidelines that parents and family members hold in high regard for the well-being of the family. Sincere family feelings are core heart feelings. They are the basis for true family values. While we have differences, we remain family by virtue of our heart connection. Family provides necessary security and support, and acts as a buffer against external problems. A family made up of secure people generates a magnetic power that can get things done. They are the hope for real security in a stressful world.

  Doc Childre

  Real, Heart, Differences

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• PATRIOTISM, n. 1) The inability to distinguish between the government and one's 'country'; 2) A highly praiseworthy virtue characterized by the desire to dominate and kill; 3) A feeling of exultation experienced when contemplating heaps of charred 'enemy' corpses; 4) The first, last, and perennial refuge of scoundrels.

  Chaz Bufe

  Country, Government, Feelings

  Chaz Bufe (2014). “Provocations: Don't Call Them Libertarians, AA Lies, and Other Incitements”, p.168, See Sharp Press

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• Guard your mind from self-praise and flee a high opinion of yourself, so that God does not allow you to fall into the opposite passion to the virtue for which you boast, for man does not accomplish virtue alone, but with the help of God who sees all.

  Marcus Eremita

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• It is an act of virtue to deceive and lie, when by such means the interest of the church might be promoted.

  Eusebius

  Lying, Mean, Church

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• Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Path, Praise, Duty

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• Ultimately, my more significant agreement is with a virtue tradition that features Aristotle and Descartes.

  Ernest Sosa

  Agreement, Tradition, Significant

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics.

  Ernest Sosa

  Special, Ethics, Cases

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Flourishing is properly the main human end, and flourishing is activity of soul that succeeds in accord with virtue.

  Ernest Sosa

  Soul, Succeed, Flourishing

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Arguably, if you view a real barn in bright sunlight and close by, while fully alert and otherwise in good shape, then you do know whether or not you see a barn. You have "animal" knowledge, says my virtue theory, through the first-order aptness of your judgment.

  Ernest Sosa

  Real, Animal, Order

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Kantian ethical theory distinguishes three levels: First, that of a fundamental principle (the categorical imperative, formulated in three main ways in Kant's Groundwork); second, a set of duties, not deduced from but derived from this principle, by way of its interpretation or specification, its application to the general conditions of human life - which Kant does in the Doctrine of virtue, the second main part of the Metaphysics of Morals; and then finally an act of judgment, through which these duties are applied to particular cases.

  Allen W. Wood

  Principles, Doe, Doctrine

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Kant's system of duties constitutes a Doctrine of Virtue because the duties also indicate what kinds of attitudes, dispositions and feelings are morally virtuous or vicious.

  Allen W. Wood

  Attitude, Feelings, Doctrine

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Some empirical feelings, such as sympathy, are indispensable parts of certain moral virtues.

  Allen W. Wood

  Feelings, Moral, Certain

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Virtues consist not only of acting in certain ways, but in ways of caring and feeling.

  Allen W. Wood

  Caring, Feelings, Acting

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• We can teach a good, formal lesson on forgiveness as a Christian virtue and all the doctrines that are attached to it. But to be in a real-life situation, a work camp or a trip or some other activity with young people where real forgiveness needs to happen, that's a different situation altogether. And that is where the deepest learning will occur.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Christian, Real, People

  "The Teacher's Journey: An Interview with Parker J. Palmer". Interview with Ron Jackson, www.youthworker.com.

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• There's Hobbes, who understood in the 1640s that the sovereign is not an appointee of God, or even a figure of superior virtue and wisdom, but just a functional device whose role is to keep people from hurting and killing each other.

  Catherine Wilson

  Hurt, People, Roles

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• My List of Virtues contain'd at first but twelve: But a Quaker Friend having kindly inform'd me that I was generally thought proud; that my Pride show'd itself frequently in Conversation; that I was not content with being in the right when discussing any Point, but was overbearing & rather insolent; of which he convinc'd me by mentioning several Instances; - I determined endeavouring to cure myself ..., and I added Humility to my List, giving an extensive Meaning to the Word.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Humility, Pride, Giving

  Source: edsitement.neh.gov

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• As always, most media aligns with the presumptive winner even though their claimed societal virtue is to investigate those in power.

  Julian Assange

  Media, Winner

  "'We Believe in What We're Doing'". Interview with Michael Sontheimer, www.spiegel.de. September 30, 2016.

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