Deception Quote by C. S. Lewis

“What determines our being virtuous is largely the absence of opportunity to be otherwise”

— Eric Nicol

The suspicion is in the air nowadays that the superiority of one of our formulas to another may not consist so much in its…

— William James

It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason.

— Anonymous

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Nature has provided for the exigency of privation, by putting the measure of our necessities far below the measure of our wants. Our necessities…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“It is a misleading tendency of our intellect to conceive things as if they were immutable and constant. It often leaves changing and concrete…

— Kaiten Nukariya

No single virtue is, on its own, necessarily virtuous.

— Jonathan V. Last

Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous.

— Joseph Butler

The virtue which we appreciate, we to some extent appropriate.

— Henry David Thoreau

Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed to blend…

— Charles Thom

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.

— Angela Duckworth