Application Quote by William Godwin Download Open image “The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.” — William Godwin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Application Capacity Character Human beings Humans Virtue
To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, the ability to trust uncertain things beyond your… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The greatest good [a man] can do is to cultivate himself in order that he may be of greater use to humanity. — Marshall Field Copy Share Image
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer,… — William Blake Copy Share Image
... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I know nothing worth the living for but usefulness and the service of my fellow-creatures. The only object I pursue is to increase, as… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
In infamy, it is wisely provided that he who stands highest in the ranks of society has the heaviest load to sustain. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“Godwin on Fenelon and his Valet * Following is an excerpt from William Godwin's Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, Book II, Chapter II: “Of Justice”:… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Tenderness is the name for a lover's most exquisite sensation; protection is implied in his most generous and heart-thrilling impulse. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
During my academical life, and from this time forward, I was indefatigable in my search after truth. I read all the authors of greatest… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Was ever a great discovery prosecuted or an important benefit conferred upon the human race by him who was incapable of standing and thinking… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list;… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I've been in real estate for a long time and I always try to stay on the edge. I'm really excited about the partnership… — MC Hammer Copy Share Image
If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“...why don't you take a picture of yourself next to a fucking job application? How about that?” — Josh Wolf Copy Share Image
Everything for us is a system. We don't think about it discretely as just as a piece of hardware, or discretely as an application...… — Hosain Rahman Copy Share Image
To each eye, perhaps, the outlines of a great civilization present a different picture. In the wide ocean upon which we venture, the possible… — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
Without application of the mind; there is no drive for taking affirmative action. — Joseph Mercado Copy Share Image
“Having no applicable skills, in any possible area whatsoever, effectively makes me the master of redundancy. But that info is obsolete, like my insults… — Will Advise Copy Share Image
At every juncture, advanced tools have been the key to a new wave of applications, and each wave of applications has been key to… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The effect of the discovery of printing was evident in the savage religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Application of power to… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image