Quotes About Virtue

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.

Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.

The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.

Philosophy is the art of living.

The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

Happiness is not the end of life: character is.

Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?

Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.

O philosophy, you leader of life.

It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.

Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.

Virtue is relative at best, there's nothing worse than a sunset when your driving due West.

He does not praise himself - yet he is respectable.

One of the most destructive anti-concepts in the history of moral philosophy is the term 'duty.

For the learning of every virtue there is an appropriate discipline, and for the learning of suspended judgment the best discipline is philosophy.

The worst type of man behaves as badly in his waking life as some men do in their dreams.

Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.

The gentleman understands what is moral. The small man understands what is profitable.

The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.

An opportunity fordoing an injury happens a hundred times a day, hut for doing good not once a year, " says Zoroaster.