#virtue

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#courage #firm #firm resolve #force #heroes

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#vicious #virtue

I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#belief #charity #christian #deep #especially

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#among #group #individual #members #mix

It was with 9/11 that I came to fully appreciate and embrace NPR's irreplaceability as a sanity preserver, its unique virtues as first responder on the burning scene. ↗

— James Wolcott

#burning #came #embrace #first #fully

Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue. ↗

— James Wolcott

#average #average american #conservatives #diner #faith

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#basis #blessing #considered #contracting #ever

We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#concepts #does #honour #into #our

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#believes #everybody #existence #fact #own

I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue. ↗

— Paul Getty

#considered #era #i #still #thrift