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“The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have nothing to do with their social consequences.”

Facts Christian Certain Social Sin Class Virtue Ethics Consequence Fundamentals Labels Defects Christian Ethics

Book:Education and the Social Order

Source: Education and the Social Order

“We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope and believe, we have the wisdom, the strength, and the courage and the virtue to do them. But we must face facts as they are. We must neither surrender ourselves to a foolish optimism, nor succumb to a timid and ignoble pessimism.”

Ifs Believe Facts Problem Faces Fighting Evil Virtue Balance Optimism Deeds Solve Foolish Graves Surrender Pessimism Threatening Ignoble

Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in Christian Sensibility over the sorrows of our human Brethren and Sisteren, we are in fact, tho' perhaps unconsciously, moved at the prospect of our own End for who sincerely pities Sea-sickness, Toothache, or a fit of the Gout in a lusty Good-liver of 50?”

Humans Ends Facts Christian Virtue Sea Fit Sorrow Moved Pity Sickness Sensibility Sincerely Fear Of Death Melting Liver Brethren Toothache Gout

Book:Collected Letters: 1820-1825

Source: Collected Letters: 1820-1825

“I beg the reader not to go in search of messages. It is a term that I detest because it distresses me greatly, for it forces on me clothes that are not mine, which in fact belong to a human type that I distrust; the prophet, the soothsayer, the seer. I am none of these; I'm a normal man with a good memory who fell into a maelstrom and got out of it more by luck than by virtue, and who from that time on has preserved a certain curiosity about maelstroms large and small, metaphorical and actual.”

Men Humans Facts Certain Force Term Memories Virtue Mines Type Reader Normal Messages Clothes Luck Curiosity Prophet Distress Distrust Good Memories Detest Metaphorical Seers Maelstrom

Author:Primo Levi

“Owing to the identification of religion with virtue, together with the fact that the most religious men are not the most intelligent, a religious education gives courage to the stupid to resist the authority of educated men, as has happened, for example, where the teaching of evolution has been made illegal. So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence; and in this respect ministers of religion follow gospel authority more closely than in some others.”

Source: Education and the Social Order

“It's great to be black in Hollywood. When a black actor does something, it seems new and different just by virtue of the fact that he's black.”

Doe Different Facts Seems Actors Black Virtue Hollywood

Author:Will Smith

“Many, and I think the determining, constitutive facts remain outside the reach of the operational concept. And by virtue of this limitation this methodological injunction against transitive concepts which might show the facts in their true light and call them by their true name the descriptive analysis of the facts blocks the apprehension of facts and becomes an element of the ideology that sustains the facts. Proclaiming the existing social reality as its own norm, this sociology fortifies in the individuals the "faithless faith" in the reality whose victims they are.”

Source: One dimensional man: studies in the ideology of advanced industrial society

“In the performance of an illocutionary act in the literal utterance of a sentence, the speaker intends to produce a certain effect by means of getting the hearer to recognize his intention to produce that effect; and furthermore, if he is using the words literally, he intends this recognition to be achieved in virtue of the fact that the rules for using the expressions he utters associate the expression with the production of that effect.”

Ifs Mean Facts Certain Virtue Effects Produce Expression Performances Intention Productions Sentences Recognition Speakers Associates Literal Utterance

Author:John Searle

“When Nietzsche praises egoism it is always in an aggressive or polemical way, against the virtues, against the virtue of disinterestedness (Z III "Of the three evil things"). But in fact egoism is a bad interpretation of the will, just as atomism is a bad interpretation of force. In order for there to be egoism it is necessary for there to be an ego.”

Way Facts Order Three Evil Force Virtue Ego Praise Interpretation Aggressive Egoism Evil Things

Book:Nietzsche and Philosophy

Source: Nietzsche and Philosophy

“Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.”

Facts Virtue Role Models

Book:Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

“You may have noted the fact that it is a person's virtues as often as his vices that make him difficult to live with.”

May Persons Facts Difficult Virtue Vices

Book:KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN – Ultimate Collection: 21 Novels & 130+ Short Stories, Fairy Tales and Poems for Children (Illustrated): Including Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm & Penelope Hamilton Series: Rose o' the River, A Summer in a Cañon, The Birds' Christmas Carol, Timothy's Quest, The Arabian Nights, Golden Numbers & many more

Source: KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN – Ultimate Collection: 21 Novels & 130+ Short Stories, Fairy Tales and Poems for Children (Illustrated): Including Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm & Penelope Hamilton Series: Rose o' the River, A Summer in a Cañon, The Birds' Christmas Carol, Timothy's Quest, The Arabian Nights, Golden Numbers & many more

“We often wonder that certain men and women are left by God to the commission of sins that shock us. We wonder how, under the temptation of a single hour, they fall from the very heights of virtue and of honor into sin and shame. The fact is that there are no such falls as these, or there are next to none. These men and women are those who have dallied with temptation--have exposed themselves to the influence of it, and have been weakened and corrupted by it.”

Men Has Beens Facts Certain Fall Next Left Hours Sin Wonder Virtue Influence Honor Men And Women Shame Temptation Height Shock Exposed

Author:J. G. Holland

“There are many virtues in books, but the essential value is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of new facts, and, better, by the record of intuitions which distribute facts, and are the formulas which supersede all histories.”

Book Facts Values Virtue Records Essentials Intuition Formulas

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“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

“Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it is our having a certain character that makes us set up an end of a certain kind), it follows that our vices are voluntary also; they are voluntary in the same manner as our virtues.”

Kind Ends Character Facts Certain Causes Moral Virtue Vices Disposition

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.”

Ifs Facts Lying Sides Virtue Ready Conservative Radical Radicalism

Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“Over-sentimentality, over-softness, in fact washiness and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people. Unless we keep the barbarian virtues, gaining the civilized ones will be of little avail.”

People Littles Facts Age Virtue Danger Civilized Barbarians Sentimentality Softness

Book:Letters and Speeches

Source: Letters and Speeches

“I think everyone is given drama, by virtue of the fact that we all have drama in our lives, but not everyone can make people laugh.”

People Thinking Facts Given Laughing Virtue Our Lives Drama Making People Laugh

Author:Matthew Lillard

“Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue.”

Should Littles Facts Law Common Practice Virtue My Favorite Common Sense Spoiled Resignation

Author:Sophie Swetchine

“This fact, that the opposite of sin is by no means virtue, has been overlooked. The latter is partly a pagan view, which is content with a merely human standard, and which for that very reason does not know what sin is, that all sin is before God. No, the opposite of sin is faith.”

Knows Humans Mean Doe Has Beens Reason Facts Sin Views Virtue Standards Opposites Latter Pagan Overlooked

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“We cannot assume that people by virtue of the fact that they are black are going to associate themselves with progressive political struggles. We need to divest ourselves the kinds of strategies that assume that black unity black political unity is possible.”

People Needs Kind Facts Political Black Struggle Virtue Strategy Assuming Unity Progressive Associates Political Struggle

Author:Angela Davis

“The tools are evolving, and people's interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness. That isn't what they would describe what they're doing, but the fact is they make a virtue of the sort of hand-made nature of what they're doing.”

People Wells Kind Made Facts Hands Interest Virtue Band Tools Evolve Sloppiness

Author:Brian Eno

“Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.”

Sometimes Facts Truth Names Virtue Fire Inspire Painter Verses

Author:Lord Byron

“However much the various phases of the French Revolution may have modelled themselves on Roman history the early phase on Republican virtue, the later on Imperial grandeur the fact remains that classicism depended on a fixed and rational philosophy; whereas the spirit of the Revolution was one of change and of emotion.”

May Philosophy Facts Spirit Emotion Virtue Revolution Republican Remains Various Rational Fixed Phases Grandeur French Revolution Classicism

Book:The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art

Source: The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art

“I know truth is more like a mountain that has to be scaled. The peak of the mountain pierces the clouds and can only rarely be seen, and has never been reached. And what you see of it, moreover, depends upon the flank of the mountain you stand upon, and how exhausted getting even so far has made you. Virtue lies in looking upwards, toiling upwards, and sometimes joyously leaping from one precarious crag of fact and feeling to the next.”

Knows Made Sometimes Facts Feelings Lying Next Virtue Depends Truth Is Mountain Clouds Exhausted Pierce Precarious Toiling

Book:The President’s Child

Source: The President’s Child

“What I can't completely understand is most other people's fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies. Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?”

People Thinking Knows I Can Facts Body Care Faces Names Virtue Ordinary Curiosity Lips Target Ordinary People Fascination

Author:Alan Alda