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God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.
William Ellery Channing
The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit.
Abraham Maslow
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
love of virtue is only an imagination, a kind of perversion of desire effected by society's (i.e., others') demands on us.
Allan Bloom
Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule.
Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die; Which in life did harbor give To more virtue than doth live.
Ben Jonson
believes that truth for truth's sake is the highest ideal and that virtue is its own reward.
Joseph Lewis
The civilization of the West, which was brilliant by virtue of its scientific perfection for a long time, and which subjugated the whole world with the products of this science to its states and nations, is now bankrupt and in decline.
Hassan Banna
The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
Frances Wright
True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
Baruch Spinoza
I think no virtue goes with size; The reason of all cowardice Is, that men are overgrown, And, to be valiant, must come down To the titmouse dimension.
To every object there corresponds an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.
Edmund Husserl
I believe Beauty is the condition of the perfect life, just as important as Virtue and Truth.
Stuart Merrill
Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.
No radiant pearl which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's ears, Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn, Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn, Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes.
Erasmus Darwin
Was his very boyishness the reason he was chosen? In that case, was it not a virtue to be admired, and not a failing to be despised?
Orson Scott Card
As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Albert Einstein
Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee, Bright'ning each other! thou art all divine!
Joseph Addison
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
Voltaire
Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be the innate virtues and splendors furnished him by his creator, infinite regression, drowned in praise!
Christopher Hitchens
