“Not every good idea survives. Not every new form of art is repeated. Not every new potential instinct is successful. Only the successful ones get repeated. By natural selection and then through repetition they become probable, more habitual.” ArtIdeasFormNaturalSuccessfulArt IsInstinctVery GoodGood IdeasRepetitionSelectionNatural SelectionHabitual Author:Rupert Sheldrake
“In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. It is the practice of sacrificing to those whom we meet in society, all the little inconveniences and preferences which will gratify them, and deprive us of nothing worth a moment's consideration; it is the giving a pleasing and flattering turn to our expressions, which will conciliate others, and make them pleased with us as well as themselves. How cheap a price for the good will of another!” WantGivingWellsLittlesRealEndsMomentsTurnsNaturalPracticeVirtueSacrificeExpressionConsiderationSubstitutesArtificialPreferenceGood WillPolitenessFlatteringHabitualInconvenienceRenderingGood Humor Author:Thomas Jefferson
“Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.” ShouldSeemsHumanityNaturalAcceptingImpossibleConfusionOrganizedDisorderHabitualNatural Things Author:Bertolt Brecht
“In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.” WholeNaturalMy OwnPracticeCasesVirtueWhole LifeHabitualRight Conduct Author:Sallust