#virtue

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out. ↗

— Casey Stengel

#blamed #committed #credit #crimes #evens

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. ↗

— Laurence Stern

#brave #forgive #generous #how #human

Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless. ↗

— Iain Pears

#philosophy #power #public-service #tyranny #virtue

My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level. ↗

— Kiefer Sutherland

#change #does #emotional #emotional level #i

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#enemy #far #friend #happiness #just

Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue. ↗

— Andre Breton

#dali #genius #hesitates #like #man

Somebody might say that they always wanted to be a fly-fishing guide in Montana and maybe they'll never get to do that but just by the virtue of having said it out loud, I think there's some power in that. ↗

— John Lee Hancock

#get #guide #having #i #i think

Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes something transcendent, becomes an event in that spatial world which appears, by virtue of consciousness, to be transcendent. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

#becomes #consciousness #construed #event #experienced

That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are a diverse country, and getting more diverse. And these virtues are what keep this great country together. ↗

— Jeff Miller

#common good #country #depends #diverse #duty

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless. ↗

— Moliere

#every #every heart #everyone #frank #heart