When I was going into one of my first meditation retreats, I asked my father, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, for some advice. He… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
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The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Love is higher than the Highest. Love is greater than the Greatest. Yea, it is in a certain sense greater than God;… — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
[Regarding] the convention that clergymen are more virtuous than other men. Any average selection of mankind, set apart and told that it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It's… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
What we take ourselves to be doing when we think about what is the case or how we should act is something… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
FAITH. No one word personifies the absolute worst and most wicked properties of religion better than that. Faith is mind-rot. It’s the… — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Elevated levels of confidence are omnipresent among history's greatest overachievers. Benjamin Franklin, one of the most famous men in the world even… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
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Remember, the left corrupts everything, folks. The Democrat Party, the left corrupts every institution. They politicize it, and by virtue of that… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“Trey scoffed. "Between you and me, Brayden's probably the last guy in the world you have to worry about. I think he's… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
If there is a form of government, then, whose principle and foundation is virtue, will not every sober man acknowledge it better… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Children exist in the worlds that adults create for them, both locally and globally, and their options are, by virtue of age,… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If anyone else asked that question, O He Who Is Terrible and Great, I would have said they were an ignorant fool;… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What… — Seneca the Elder Copy Share Image
There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world -… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
In youth, it is common to measure right and wrong by the opinion of the world, and in age, to act without… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The probity that scintillizes in the superfices of your persons informs my ratiocinating faculty, in a most stupendous manner, of the radiant… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
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What we take for virtue is often but an assemblage of various ambitions and activities that chance, or our own astuteness, have… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Interactivity has the virtue of democracy, conferring upon everyone with access to a computer the right and opportunity to be heard, but… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
“Most people indulged in their vices and clung to their virtues based on their responses to temptation and conflict, not because some… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Things severed shall be united and shall acquire of themselves such virtue that they shall restore to men their lost memory: -… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
Geraldo has been in Lebanon. He has done some excellent reporting out of there, and of course, we now know by virtue… — Brit Hume Copy Share Image
My purpose is to inspire people of all walks of life to discover the virtue inherent within them and to bring forth… — William Shirley Copy Share Image
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