“By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress.” MistakeVirtueImagineSourceConstantDistressThose We Love Author:Anton Chekhov
“Man, having an ideal before him of that which he ought to be, and is not, and acting as though he possessed the character he ought to have, but has not, comes, by the very virtue of his aspiration, to possess the character he imagines.” MenCharacterActingVirtueImagineOughtIdealsAspirationPossessed Author:William Batchelder Greene
“If you seek what is honorable, what is good, what is the truth of your life, all the other things you could not imagine come as a matter of course.” IfsMatterCoursesVirtueImagineHonorHonorable Author:Oprah Winfrey
“One song isn't going to ever change things, but I suppose it's the accumulation of music generally [that is]. If you can imagine a world that has no music in it, it would be a very different world, so music does change the world by virtue of all the music in it. Cumulative music of every kind, from banging a drum to playing a flute or recording symphonies, or singing 'War, what is it good for?' All those things change the whole way we live.” IfsWorldWayKindDoeDifferentWarWholeWould BeSongVirtueImagineSingingChanging The WorldThings ChangeSymphonyAccumulationDifferent WorldsBangingFlutesCumulative Author:Mick Jagger
“Any base heart can devise means of vileness, and affix the ugly shapings of its own fancy to the actions of those around him; but it requires loftiness of mind, and the heaven-born spirit of virtue, to imagine greatness where it is not, and to deck the sordid objects of nature in the beautiful robes of loveliness and light.” MindHeartMeanLightActionBeautifulSpiritHeavenBornVirtueImagineObjectsGreatnessUglyFancySuspicionDeckRobesLoveliness Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all; she influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues.” ActionPassionMistakeVirtueImagineInfluenceDesignMastersAmbitionAnd LoveViolentTriumphImagine ThatIdleness Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid. I don't consider it a moral virtue.” PeopleBelieveWellsI CanI BelieveMoralVirtueImagineBraveWickedGood PeopleMoral Virtues Author:Susan Sontag