“Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.” IfsMayCharacterDoorsExampleBenefitsHighestImportanceWorthyOpeningInstructionImitationCourtesyEnabling Author:Michel de Montaigne
“Selfishness does not mean only to do things for one's self. One may do things, affecting others, for his own pleasure and benefit. This is not immoral, but the highest of morality.” MayMeanDoeSelfPleasureMoralityBenefitsHighestSelfishnessImmoral Author:Ayn Rand
“Intelligence is something that is not just thinking, it's feeling. Ultimately, the highest reflection of intelligent life is cooperative life in which all benefit.” ThinkingFeelingsScienceLife IsBuddhismBenefitsHighestReflectionIntelligentCooperativesIntelligent Life Author:Frederick Lenz
“I think I governed effectively. I don't have any doubts about that. I had the benefit, when I was in office, of having an excellent relationship with the Republican Party. We had superb bipartisan support and we had the highest batting average of any president since the Second World War, except Lyndon Johnson. He had a little better average than I did.” ThinkingWorldLittlesWarPresidentPartySupportDoubtRepublicanOfficeBenefitsHighestAverageExcellentWar Of The WorldsRepublican PartyJohnsonSecond World WarSuperbBipartisanBatting Author:Jimmy Carter
“The philosophers of industrialism, from Bacon to Bentham, from Smith to Marx, insisted that the improvement of man's condition was the highest requirement of morality. But in what did the improvement consist? The answer seemed so obvious to them that they did not bother to justify it: the expansion and fulfillment of the material wants of man, and the spread of these benefits, from the few who had once preempted them, to the many who had so long lived on the scraps Dives had thrown into the gutter.” MenWantLongAnswersConditionsHe ManMaterialsMoralityBenefitsHighestPhilosopherObviousSpreadImprovementBotherFulfillmentThrownJustifyConsumerismExpansionRequirementsScrapOverconsumptionGutters Author:Lewis Mumford
“In the New Testament it is taught that willing and voluntary service to others is the highest duty and glory in human life. . . . The men of talent are constantly forced to serve the rest. They make the discoveries and inventions, order the battles, write the books, and produce the works of art. The benefit and enjoyment go to the whole. There are those who joyfully order their own lives so that they may serve the welfare of mankind.” MenLifeWritingHumansMayArtBookWholeOrderMankindTalentProduceTaughtWillingHe ManDutyBattleBenefitsHighestGloryDiscoveryInventionHuman LifeWelfareEnjoymentWorks Of ArtTestamentNew TestamentService To OthersDiscovery And Invention Book:Folkways - A Study Of The Sociological Importance Of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores And Morals Source: Folkways - A Study Of The Sociological Importance Of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores And Morals