Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Thus for each blunt-faced ignorant one The great grey rigid uniform combined Safety with virtue of the sun. Thus concepts linked like… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
“Virtue, mindfulness, and wisdom are the pillars of everyday well-being, personal growth, and spiritual practice; they draw on the three fundamental neural… — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
As soon as we are stripped of the sordid garb of avarice, we shall be clothed with the royal and imperial vest… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect change is the way to perfect them. It gets the name of wilfulness when it… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Saddest of all are the women who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue. They made the… — Jeanette Copy Share Image
Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my virtue for their gold.… — Solon Copy Share Image
Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But the only virtue special to a ruler is practical wisdom; all the others must be possessed,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“I have no fear of men, as such, nor of their books. I have mixed with them--one or two of them particularly--… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
the New Englander landed on a stony, barren tract, and a large share of his strength during two centuries has gone to… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
We've so, so fallen for the premise that only government can do certain things. But then when we get around to privatizing,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Her mind, shaped so long before my own, was for me the equivalent of what had been offered me by the behaviour… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. Just as a flower, by… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Looking deeper into African way of life, it wasn't religious; it was spiritual. When you go into spiritualism, spiritualism will teach you… — Femi Kuti Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
The Menzies Government, by its participation in the plans for the development of other nations, can see the virtue of planning for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I cannot see why a taste for the country should be held so very indispensable a requisite for excellence; but really people… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Soaking the rich would not only be profoundly immoral, it would drastically penalize the very virtues: thrift, business foresight, and investment, that… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out… — John Milton Copy Share Image
There is no intrinsic virtue to law and order unless 'law' is equated with justice and 'order' with the discipline of a… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
To be pleased at correction and reproofs shows that one loves the virtues which are contrary to those faults for which he… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
If you seek what is honorable, what is good, what is the truth of your life, all the other things you could… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
It is implanted in the Christian soul, by the side of the running waters, under the sky of the theological virtues, amid… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
The Gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength, and throw our into… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If you say that a good reputation serves to benefit the neighbor more, I admit that. However, since it should be based… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
The seven sacred teachings: love, respect, courage, honesty, wisdom, humility, truth. These are the seven virtues that lead to a full and… — Perry Bellegarde Copy Share Image
If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and… — John Jewel Copy Share Image
There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
