Best function & virtue Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Along with a dozen other students I had dissected a human cadaver and sorted its contents by size, color, function, and weight. There was nothing pleasant about the experience. Its only consolation was its truth and its only virtue was its utility.”

Humans Virtue Students Color Weight Function Size Pleasant Dozen Consolation Utility Cadavers

Book:Spin

Source: Spin

“Some authors state that the last stage in this chain of measurements involves "consciousness," or the "intellectual inner life" of the observer, by virtue of the "principle of psycho-physical parallelism." Other authors introduce a wave function for the entire universe. In this book, I shall refrain from using concepts that I do not understand.”

Book States Lasts Universe Consciousness Principles Virtue Stage Intellectual Concepts Function Wave Chains Introducing Observers Measurement Inner Life Refrain Psycho Parallelism

Author:Asher Peres

“Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.”

Men Wells Causes Virtue Function Excellence Good Man Disposition

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.”

Soul Facts Action Desire Three Animal Virtue Special Elements Capable Function Intellect Related Faculty Sensations Attainment

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those dispositions which will best qualify them to attain truth.”

Soul Virtue Truth Is Intellectual Function Disposition Attainment

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim at, Prudence ensures the rightness of the means we adopt to gain that end.”

Men Wells Mean Ends Moral Virtue Gains Performances Function Aim Determine Prudence Moral Virtues

Author:Aristotle

“I see no reason in morality, why literature should not have as one of its intentions the arousing of thoughts of lust. It is one of the effects, perhaps one of the functions of literature to arouse desire, and I can discover no grounds for saying that sexual pleasure should not be among the objects of desire which literature presents to us, along with heroism, virtue, peace, death, food, wisdom, God, etc.”

Should I Can Reason Desire Literature Pleasure Virtue Effects Objects Morality Function Intention Lust Etc No Reason Heroism Objects Of Desire

Author:Lionel

“Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness; we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the peaceable virtues,and as for the others, that it does not destroy them utterly, but only suspends the exercise of their functions.”

Doe Virtue Exercise Function Faults Laziness Idleness

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Mother is in herself a concrete denial of the idea of sexual pleasure since her sexuality has been placed at the service of reproductive function alone. She is the perpetually violated passive principle; her autonomy has been sufficiently eroded by the presence within her of the embryo she brought to term. Her unthinking ability to reproduce, which is her pride, is, since it is beyond choice, not a specific virtue of her own.”

Has Beens Ideas Mother Choices Term Ability Pleasure Principles Virtue Pride Function Sexuality Denial Concrete Passive Autonomy Embryos

Author:Angela Carter

“The sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism - his insistence on trying to do the right thing. In which case it wasn't a tragic flaw that brought Tillman down, but a tragic virtue.”

Trying Ends Cases Virtue Mets Function Right Thing Tragic Flaws Afghanistan Idealism Stubborn Insistence Tragic Flaw

Author:Jon Krakauer

“The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.”

Virtue Function Bounds Vices Reasonable Vice And Virtue

Book:The Notebooks of Samuel Butler

Source: The Notebooks of Samuel Butler

“Change is freedom, change is life. It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes, don't risk disapproval, don't upset your syndics. It's always easiest to let yourself be governed. There's a point, around age twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities. Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfil my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to go unbuild walls.”

Thinking Age Social Virtue Nice Risk Wall Easier Safe Function Twenties Oneself Settling Upset Prisoner Organisms Hierarchy Rest Of Your Life Making Changes Disapproval

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning "heart." Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.”

Heart Inspiration Values Brain Virtue Blood Arms Function Mere Legs Psychological Organs Stem Self Development

Book:The Courage to Create

Source: The Courage to Create

“Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.”

Happiness Virtue Products Function

Author:William S. Burroughs

“Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of his reason and spirit respectively: he is disciplined when spirit and appetite are in proper subordination to reason. He is just in virtue of the harmony which exists when all three elements of the mind perform their proper function and so achieve their proper fulfillment; he is unjust when no such harmony exists.”

Mind States Reason Political Spirit Three Individual Justice Virtue Wise Achieve Elements Function Harmony Brave Defined Fulfillment Appetite Unjust Subordination

Book:The Republic

Source: The Republic

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