#virtue — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #virtue, aggregated by home.social.
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A quotation from Samuel Johnson
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret, is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it; for however absurd it may be thought to boast an honour by an act which shows that it was conferred without merit, yet most men seem rather inclined to confess the want of virtue than of importance, and more1 show their influence, though at the expense of their probity, than glide through lift with no other pleasure than the private consciousness of fidelity; which, while it is preserved, must be without praise, except from the single person who tries and knows it.
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1750-05-01), The Rambler, No. 13More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/2153/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #boasting #ego #importance #pride #probity #promisekeeping #secret #trust #trustworthiness #vanity #virtue
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
If you wish a man to commit some abominable crime, from which he would naturally recoil in horror, you first teach him loyalty to a gang of arch-criminals, and then make his crime appear to him as exemplifying the virtue of loyalty. Of this process, patriotism is the most perfect instance.
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Social Order [Education and the Modern World], ch. 1 “The Individual vs. the Citizen” (1932)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/855…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #virtue #coercion #conscience #influence #loyalty #patriotism #wrongdoing
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When one has faith in the Tathagata,
unshakable and well established, ...#Buddhism #Theravada #Dhamma #PaliCanon #suttas #faith #virtue
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The Emoluments Clause is a thing, unless you have #ConstitutionalDerangementSyndrome™ 🤷🏻♂️
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Virtue begins by shunning vice; wisdom
By shunning folly.
[Virtus est vitium fugere et sapientia prima
stultitia caruisse.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 1 “To Maecenas,” l. 41ff (1.1.41-42) (20 BC) [tr. Ferry (2001)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14188/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #avoidance #folly #foolishness #immorality #negative #sin #stupidity #vice #virtue #wisdom
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
EXPEDIENCY, n. The father of all virtues.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Expediency,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1884-06-07)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/85383…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #convenience #excuse #expediency #justification #opportunism #pragmatism #rationale #selfinterest #selfjustification #virtue
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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RobertGreenIngersoll #Kindness #Virtue
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
The world oftener rewards the appearance of merit than merit itself.
[Le monde récompense plus souvent les apparences du mérite que le mérite même.]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶166 (1665-1678) [tr. Bund/Friswell (1871)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #appearances #cynicism #facade #merit #praise #recognition #reward #virtue
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A quotation from Samuel Johnson
That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1750-03-31), The Rambler, No. 4More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/22262…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #cleverness #cunning #goodperson #goodness #knowledge #practicality #pragmatism #virtue #worldliness
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Aristotle would be thrilled to know his profound musings on #virtue and #happiness are now the perfect backdrop for an academic library's bureaucratic soup of "Study Skills" and "Early Offer Schemes." 😂📚 Because who wouldn't want to find enlightenment nestled between "FAQs" and "Work Scheme"? 🤦♂️
https://www.campion.edu.au/blog/top-25-aristotle-quotes-on-virtue-knowledge-and-happiness/ #Aristotle #AcademicLibrary #StudySkills #Bureaucracy #HackerNews #ngated -
Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness
https://www.campion.edu.au/blog/top-25-aristotle-quotes-on-virtue-knowledge-and-happiness/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49183115
#HackerNews #Aristotle #Virtue #Knowledge #Happiness #Quotes #Philosophy
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
Interest, upon which we commonly lay the Blame of all our ill Actions, oftentimes deserves the commendation due to our Good ones.
[L’intérêt, que l’on accuse de tous nos crimes, mérite souvent d’être loué de nos bonnes actions.]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶305 (1665-1678) [tr. Stanhope (1694)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #blame #doinggood #enlightenedselfinterest #gooddeeds #motivation #rationale #selfcenteredness #selfinterest #selfishness #vice #virtue
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A quotation from Theodore Roosevelt
[… T]he individual virtues, and the necessity of character as the chief factor in any man’s success — a teaching in which I now believe as sincerely as ever, for all the laws that the wit of man can devise will never make a man a worthy citizen unless he has within himself the right stuff, unless he has self-reliance, energy, courage, the power of insisting on his own rights and the sympathy that makes him regardful of the rights of others.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Autobiography, ch. 1 “Boyhood and Youth” (1913)More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #theodoreroosevelt #teddyroosevelt #character #citizen #courage #individuality #moralcode #personalcode #personalresponsibility #rights #selfreliance #success #virtue #worthiness
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Hypocrisy is the compliment vice pays to virtue.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #FrancoisdeLaRochefoucauld #Hypocrisy #Virtue
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Mangrove #RabbitKey #Everglades #Florida
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Moral deskilling
Deskilling was something we knew from the industrialisation of manufacturing. Rather than artisan work, where the expert (say) baker knew and controlled the entire process of bread making, each step was broken down and put along a factory assembly line. We know from longstanding labour history that this ‘deskilled’ expertise, handed control of the entire process to management (foremen, traditionally) and meant that bosses could reduce wages – and, often enough, job satisfaction.
From the 1980s this happened to professional work, and to virtue specifically.
I called this moral deskilling.
~ Hannah Forsyth, from Moral DeskillingThis neatly unpicked a complex knot that I’d been staring at for some time.
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Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.
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New #blog #post: Re: Praying to St Jude: counselling the re-Googlers
https://rldane.space/re-praying-to-st-jude-counselling-the-re-googlers.html
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This is a #JulyReply post in reply to Kevin Boone's post
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#rlDaneWriting #blost #DeGoogling #Android #Lineage #LineageOS #enpoopification #virtue #DigitalSovereignty
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🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:
Snp 2.14 From… Dhammikasutta: With Dhammika
“Now I shall tell you the householder’s duty, doing which one becomes a good disciple.…”
Read the sutta
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✉ https://daily.readingfaithfully.org?=MSUDS#LayDisciples #virtue #SuttaNipata #Theravada #PaliCanon #RealBuddhaQuotes #Suttas #Dhamma #Buddhism #Buddha
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I salute the man who is going through life always helpful, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made who proffer consolation to mankind in their self-created miseries.
[Heil dem Manne, der stets helfend durchs Leben ging, keine Furcht kannte und dem jede Aggressivität und jedes Ressentiment fremd war! Von solchem Holz sind die Idealgestalten geschnitzt, die der Menschheit Trost bieten in den Situationen selbstgeschaffenen Leidens.]Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-American physicist
Essay (1953-05-23), “Aphorisms for Leo Baeck [Neun Aphorismen], No. 1, Essays Presented to Leo Baeck on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday (1954) [Einstein Archives 28-962]More about this quote: wist.info/einstein-albert/8472…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #einstein #alberteinstein #aggression #calm #character #exemplar #fearlessness #friendliness #goodman #goodperson #helpfulness #humancondition #humanity #moralcharacter #moralleadership #peacefulness #philanthropy #resentment #virtue
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🎙️ "Why Elon Musk Is The Worst Human On The Planet" by #DailyStoic
https://podcasts.wesfryer.com/episode/szT2PKP1NGD70EL6rFtq
#podcommons #ResistAndHeal #virtue #stoic #musk #ElonMusk #HealOurCulture
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The fact is, very few men are right in everything. Great virtues may draw attention from defects, but they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by pebbles is still a gem. No one should attempt to refute an argument by pronouncing the name of some man, unless he is willing to adopt all the ideas and beliefs of that man. It is better to give reasons and facts than names. An argument should not depend for its force upon the name of its author. Facts need no pedigree, logic has no heraldry, and the living should not awed by the mistakes of the dead.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Lecture (1881-05-01) “The Great Infidels,” Booth’s Theater, New YorkMore about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ingersoll #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #ancestors #argument #authority #debate #defect #elders #facts #fallacy #feetofclay #forefathers #imperfection #perfection #truth #virtue
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
Courage is the principal virtue, for all the others presuppose it. If you are afraid, you may do anything.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 12 “Courage”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #courage #fear #resolve #virtue
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‘The Art of the Crooked’: take what is not yours, then give what is not yours so you can take more of it. Rinse and repeat. ‘The Book’ was sold a long time ago and has had many forms. #TheBook #TheGreatLie #AbsoluteBeing #SecretKnowledge #Abuse #AbsoluteIdea #TheGreatSteal #TheArtOfTheCrooked #Philosophy #MythologicalBeing #SuperstitiousBeliefs #GriftersWorlds #TheDeathOfSocrates #Virtue #CrookedGods #TheSociety #TheRepublic #DialecticPrinciple #Foundation #TheFederation #AnEthicallySustainableLife ?
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What is Serving God? ’Tis doing Good to Man.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1747 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/84…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklin #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #poorrichard #poorrichardsalmanac #charity #divinewill #doinggood #God #loveyourneighbor #philanthropy #piety #service #virtue
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“The postwar bulge was, in large part, a historical accident, a one-time dividend from being the last factory standing, paid out under a monetary and competitive order that no longer exists and isn’t coming back. We didn’t earn the golden age through superior #virtue, and we won’t get it back through superior virtue either.”
- #AnthonyScaramucci
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/great-compression-how-get-back-anthony-scaramucci-r4ucc -
I do think that if I had to choose one word to which hope can be tied it is hospitality. A practice of hospitality -- recovering threshold, table, patience, listening, and from there generating seedbeds for virtue and friendship on the one hand -- on the other hand radiating out for possible community, for rebirth of community.
-- Ivan Illich (1996 Interview)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #IvanIllich #Community #Friendship #Hope #Hospitality #Virtue