“Whenever you're about to engage in something with an ethical dimension, always ask yourself, "Is this who I wanted to be on the best day of my life?” LawChoicesEvilPoliticsMoralityEthics Book:The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide Source: The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide
“Man cannot bear to be in the wrong. As soon as he feels guilt or remorse, he bends his ethics to suit himself. Actions do not flow from ethics, but ethics from actions, and it is by refining our actions that we refine our ethics.” PhilosophyVirtueEthicsSelf Deception Author:Neel Burton
“Poor feeling hijacks thinking for self-deception: to hide harsh truths, avoid action, evade responsibility, and, as the existentialists might put it, flee from freedom. Thus, poor feeling is a kind of moral failing, indeed, the deepest kind, and virtue principally consists in correcting and refining our emotions and the values that they reflect. To feel the right thing is to do the right thing, without any particular need for conscious thought or effort.” ReasonPhilosophyEmotionsEthicsExistentialismEmotional IntelligencePsychoanalysisSelf DeceptionCognition Book:Heaven and Hell: The Psychology of the Emotions Source: Heaven and Hell: The Psychology of the Emotions
“One needs to be either more brave or more good, because if courage is lacking goodness can substitute, while cowardice is the deficiency of both.” PhilosophyCourageVirtueEthicsBraveryCowardiceEpigramsVice Author:Neel Burton
“To be a good speaker, you need to be a good thinker. To be a good thinker, you need to be a good human being. And to be a good human being, you need to love the truth and the world more than you love your sorry self.” PhilosophyVirtueEthicsRhetoricPublic SpeakingOratoryVirtue Ethics Book:How to Think Like Plato and Speak Like Cicero Source: How to Think Like Plato and Speak Like Cicero
