#virtue

The sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of his technological superiority creates his own energy source. ↗

— El Lissitzky

#down #energy #energy source #expression #heavens

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#first #know #must #order #ourselves

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments. ↗

— Robert E. Howard

#because #culture #education #environments #into

Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures. ↗

— Frank Wedekind

#good #imposing #looks #only #suits

[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#virtues #courage

Sexual energy between two people is a primal force comprised of power (energy that moves toward another) and virtue (knowing the energy between the two is right). ↗

— Alexandra Katehakis

#love #power #sex #virtue #intelligence

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." [On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.] ↗

— Winston Churchill

#classic-insult #vice #virtue #leadership

...Ah, but the Moon my Love is jealous, and can you blame him? You outshine him with your virtues... ↗

— John Geddes

#love #moon #virtues #jealousy

For I am—or I was—one of those people who pride themselves in on their willpower, on their ability to make a decision and carry it through. This virtue, like most virtues, is ambiguity itself. People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception. Their decisions are not really decisions at all—a real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things than can be named—but elaborate systems of evasion, of illusion, designed to make themselves and the world appear to be what they and the world are not. This is certainly what my decision, made so long ago in Joey’s bed, came to. I had decided to allow no room in the universe for something which shamed and frightened me. I succeeded very well—by not looking at the universe, by not looking at myself, by remaining, in effect, in constant motion. ↗

— James Baldwin

#life #personality #pride #virtue #world

No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic. ↗

— John Robert Seeley

#safe #virtue