Active Quote by David Hume

The practice of that which is ethically best-what we call goodness or virtue-involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is opposed to…

— Anonymous

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

— Thomas Jefferson

That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true…

— Albert Pike

“Those which can be experienced in the present life, can of course, be no others than such as human nature in the course of…

— Jeremy Bentham

“Therefore the activity of God, which surpasses all others in blessedness, must be contemplative; and of human activities, therefore, that which is most akin…

— Aristotle

“The actions from which [virtue] was produced are also those in which it is exercised.”

— Aristotle

“That which is beautiful is magnified by being shared with others.That which is painful is often moderated by being shared. Both are logical. -Spock”

— Alan Dean Foster

“Happiness and goodness, according to canting moralists, stand in the relation of effect and cause. There was never anything less proved or less probable:…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“that, when it comes to humanity, “the perfection of our nature and capability of happiness, must be estimated by the degree of reason, virtue,…

— Joseph Heath

“That which rules within, when it is according to nature, will always adapt itself easily to that which is possible and is presented to…

— Marcus Aurelius

“...happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to…

— Arnold Bennett

“Nature may be defined as that which exists without guilt.”

— John Updike