Motivation Quote by Michael Greenberg

“Spinoza left a celebrated description of his life’s endeavour: After experience had taught me that all things which frequently take place in ordinary life…

— Roger Scruton

“And, like Buddha, Spinoza is often dismissed as a mere seeker of tranquillity – but what he valued most was joy, which he defined…

— Michael Foley

“Now: the first requirement of stability in a human being was that the said human being should really desire to exist. This is what…

— Saul Bellow

“Spinoza writes, “A free man, that is to say, a man who lives according to the dictates of reason alone, is not led by…

— Ruth Ozeki

Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.

— Seneca the Younger

“PERFECT VIRTUE PRODUCES NOTHING, because it needs nothing. Production comes out of desire, production comes because you are imperfect. You create something as a…

— Osho

Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them, keeps them…

— Socrates

“The greatest virtue consists in flourishing to the greatest of our capacities.”

— Annabel Lyon

I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually…

— Terry Eagleton

“Virtue is what happens when someone has made a thousand small choices requiring effort and concentration to do something which is good and right,…

— N.T. Wright

Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

— Thomas Carlyle

The true virtue of human beings is fitness to live together as equals; claiming nothing for themselves but what they as freely concede to…

— John Stuart Mill