“You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination, what's right and what's wrong, what's good and what's bad.” EnoughChanceMoralityEthicsBraveDiscriminationBe BraveMorality And Ethics Author:Robert Frost
“Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small task to hit the mean in each case, as it is not, for example, any chance comer, but only the geometer, who can find the center of a given circle.” MeanTwoGivenChanceMoralCasesVirtueExampleMoralityTasksVicesCirclesExcessDefectsMoral Virtues Book:The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle Source: The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle
“Liberty, according to my metaphysics, is an intellectual quality, an attribute that belongs not to fate nor chance. Neither possesses it, neither is capable of it. There is nothing moral or immoral in the idea of it. The definition of it is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power; it can elect between objects, indifferent in point of morality, neither morally good nor morally evil.” IdeasSelfAmericaChoicesEvilChanceQualityLibertyMoralFateObjectsMoralityCapableIntellectualDefinitionsAgentsAttributesIndifferentMetaphysicsImmoral Book:The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections Source: The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections