“Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me... Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.” MindMayTwoLawHeavenWonderMoralVirtueMoralityWorthyDoctrineTwo ThingsAweMoral LawAwe And Wonder Author:Immanuel Kant
“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.” MenHas BeensFactsCertainFallNextLeftHoursSinWonderVirtueInfluenceHonorMen And WomenShameTemptationHeightShockExposed Author:J. G. Holland
“Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.” BornWonderVirtueInfluenceBearsPleaseHighestLowsCourtRateStrikesSoilPenetrateScarceGems Book:The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Life of Alexander Pope. Poems Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Life of Alexander Pope. Poems
“If fortune makes a wicked man prosperous and a good man poor, there is no need to wonder. For the wicked regard wealth as everything, the good as nothing. And the good fortune of the bad cannot take away their badness, while virtue alone will be enough for the good.” IfsMenNeedsEnoughWealthPoorWonderVirtueRegardFortuneWickedGood ManProsperousGood FortuneBadnessWicked Man Author:Sallust
“Wonder of wonders! Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue, but because men's minds have become inverted through delusive thinking they fail to perceive this.” ThinkingMenMindWonderVirtueFailingPerceiveInverted Author:Gautama Buddha