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Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes something transcendent, becomes an event in that spatial world which appears, by virtue of consciousness, to be transcendent.
Edmund Husserl
World
Pure
Virtue
Way
Objectively
Something
Longer
Becomes
Itself
Transcendent
Experienced
Psychologically
Which
Spatial
Therefore
Appears
Event
Consciousness
In Islamic societies, politicians can manipulate almost everything. But thus far, no fundamentalist leader has been able to convince his supporters to renounce Islam's central virtue - the principle of strict equality between human beings, regardless of sex, race, or creed.
Fatema Mernissi
Equality
Strict
Sex
Leader
Islam
Politicians
Virtue
Everything
Has-Been
Able
Almost
Thus
Supporters
Between
Almost Everything
Principle
Islamic
Renounce
Been
His
Human
Human Beings
Regardless
Central
Manipulate
Race
Far
Convince
Beings
Fundamentalist
Societies
Creed
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Life
Art
Moral Authority
Be True
Eloquence
Secret
Virtue
Moral
Highest
True
Authority
Maxim
The Secret Of
Us
Let Us
Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.
Henry IV of England
Great
Patriotism
Virtue
Must
Supported
Principals
Founded
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
Henry Kissinger
Funny
Thought
Virtue
Those
Only
Alternative
Moderation
Who
God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
Isaac Newton
God
Omnipresent
Virtually
Virtue
Everywhere
Only
He
Also
Without
Always
Same
Subsist
Substance
Substantially
Cannot
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
John Dryden
Love
Grace
Will
Goodness
Virtue
Hath
True
Thy
Principal
Always
Continue
Affections
End
Ends
Whereas
Which
Founded
A republican government can only be supported by virtue; and the end of all our legislation should be to encourage our fellow citizens in its daily practice.
John Tyler
Government
Daily
Practice
Virtue
Our
Citizens
Only
Supported
Fellow
Fellow Citizens
Encourage
End
Legislation
Republican
Should
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
Joseph Addison
Happiness
Enemy
Will
Virtue
Corrupt
He
Becomes
Quickly
Than
Suspicion
Suspicious
Naturally
Less
The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really is. Uncertainty is no virtue when the facts are clear, and ambiguity is mere obfuscation when more precise terms are applicable.
Julian Baggini
Mind
Healthy
Live
Mark
Virtue
Indeed
Ability
More
Only
Uncertainty
Facts
Clear
Mere
Terms
Ambiguity
Mature
Precise
Psychologically
Much
Really
Applicable
No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
Karl Barth
God
Saved
Virtue
Everyone
No-One
He
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
Karl Marx
Money
Value
Living
Add
Virtue
Ability
Lays
Occult
Least
Itself
Eggs
Offspring
Commodities
Being
Golden
Acquired
Capital
Forth
Brings
Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
Lord Byron
Life
Day
Every Day
Reward
Own
Every
Other
Virtue
Superiority
Know
Opinion
Any
Vicious
We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Today
Day
Every Day
Will
Every
Virtue
Our
Ourselves
Brought
Temptation
Call
Mastered
Opposed
Passions
Account
Vices
Acquired
Themselves
Should
Every Night
Night
Resisted
Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
Lyman Abbott
Life
Life Is A
Every
Innocence
Virtue
Temptation
Through
Vice
March
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
Margaret Deland
Spiritual
Sense
Dissipation
Virtue
Self-Sacrifice
Denies
Common
Which
Common Sense
Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
Natalie Clifford Barney
Virtue
Seduction
Demand
Most
Greater
We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Virtue
We Cannot
Attribute
Without
Achieved
Cannot
Either
Which
Fortune
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith
Weed
Virtue
Faults
Out
Scarce
Some
Excellence
Allied
Without
Vice
Nearly
No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
Ovid
Man
Integrity
Worth
Value
Increase
Too
Virtue
Our
Must
Purchase
Cost
Only
Price
Never
Parted
Dear
His
The Only Thing
Us
Much
Keep
Whose
Ever
Thing
A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.
Ruth Benedict
Gratitude
Man
Job
Virtue
He
Himself
Repayment
His
Begins
Actively
Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.
Sadhu Vaswani
Smile
God
Great
Gratitude
Suffering
Trials
Path
Criticism
Sacrifice
Become
Worldly
Virtue
Our
Some
Martyrs
Through
Lead
Put
Come
Heal
Mitigate
Go
Sake
Up
Done
Human
Them
Us
Many
Even
Hence
Human Suffering
It is certain that, because the negligent do not struggle against self, they never achieve peace of soul or do so tardily, and never possess any virtue in its fullness, while the energetic and industrious make notable advances on both fronts.
Saint Ignatius
Struggle
Soul
Peace
Achieve
Virtue
Possess
Both
Self
Never
Advances
Make
Industrious
Because
Any
Fronts
Energetic
While
Against
Notable
Certain
Fullness
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sympathy
Virtue
Consistent
Selfishness
Disguised
Acknowledged
The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
Thomas Malthus
Evil
Virtue
Temptation
Ordeal
Resist
Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.
Tom Hiddleston
Humanity
Reflect
Own
Other
Frailty
Virtue
Vitality
Instinctively
Artists
Want
Each
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