Beauty Quote by Jens Timmermann

As human beings we are all the same. We have this marvelous intelligence, which sometimes creates problems for us, but when influenced by warm-heartedness…

— Dalai Lama

“as well as over potentially ennobling or morally beatific states like sympathy, melancholia, and shame (the emotions given the most attention in literary criticism’s…

— Sianne Ngai

A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake,…

— Henry Fielding

“Happiness induced morality does not say anything about the content of a person's character. The real mettle of an individual's character is revealed during…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.”

— Aristotle

Virtues are dispositions not only to act in particular ways, but also to feel in particular ways. To act virtuously is not, as Kant…

— Alasdair MacIntyre

Kant's system of duties constitutes a Doctrine of Virtue because the duties also indicate what kinds of attitudes, dispositions and feelings are morally virtuous…

— Allen W. Wood

While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of…

— James Russell Lowell

Some empirical feelings, such as sympathy, are indispensable parts of certain moral virtues.

— Allen W. Wood

One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.

— Ezra Taft Benson

Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness…

— Samuel Johnson

“It is undoubtedly the case that the practice of the virtues makes one happier. We’ve somewhat lost sight of that essential truth, now that…

— Alexander McCall Smith