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“Some virtues, when they become fashions, also become exaggerated. Just because nobody likes a judgmental attitude does not mean that there isn't a sort of spoiled, self-righteous hypocrisy when one man obsessively commands other men not to judge without knowing the circumstances without himself, too, knowing their circumstances behind their judgments.”

Men Mean Doe Self Behinds Attitude Knowing Virtue Fashion Judging Circumstances Judgment Likes Command Hypocrisy One Man Righteous Spoiled Exaggerated Judgmental Mental Attitude Self Righteous

Author:Criss Jami

“The definitions of humanism are many, but let us here take it to be the attitude of those men who think it an advantage to live in society, and, at that, in a complex and highly developed society, and who believe that man fulfills his nature and reaches his proper stature in this circumstance. The personal virtues which humanism cherishes are intelligence, amenity, and tolerance; the particular courage it asks for is that which is exercised in the support of these virtues. The qualities of intelligence which it chiefly prizes are modulation and flexibility.”

Thinking Men Believe Asks Attitude Quality Support Virtue Particular Circumstances Advantage Complexes Humanism Definitions Tolerance Prize Cherish Flexibility Stature Amenities

Author:Lionel Trilling

“There is probably not one person, however great his virtue, who cannot be led by the complexities of life's circumstances to a familiarity with the vices he condemns the most vehemently--without his completely recognizing this vice which, disguised as certain events, touches him and wounds him: strange words, an inexplicable attitude, on a given night, of the person whom he otherwise has so many reasons to love.”

Persons Reason Night Certain Given Attitude Virtue Events Strange Circumstances Vices Wounds Tolerance Complexity Recognizing Familiarity Inexplicable Reason To Love

Author:Marcel Proust

“It ill becomes any of us to take the attitude that all evidence for God is false evidence, beneath consideration, simply by virtue of its being evidence for God, or even by virtue of its being outside the purview of science.”

Attitude Virtue Evidence Ill Consideration

Book:The Fire in the Equations: Science, Religion, and the Search for God

Source: The Fire in the Equations: Science, Religion, and the Search for God

“Our disregard of civic and moral virtue as an educational priority is having a tangible effect on the attitudes, understanding and behavior of large portions of the youth population in the United States today.”

Source: Failing Liberty 101: How We Are Leaving Young Americans Unprepared for Citizenship in a Free Society

“The contrived language and the flattering attitude rarely come with the virtue.”

Language Attitude Virtue Flattering

Author:Confucius

“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 or vicious.”

Kind Feelings Attitude Virtue Duty Doctrine Virtuous Disposition Vicious

Author:Allen W. Wood