Errol Morris Quotes
War is such a peculiar thing - inaugurated by the whims of few, affecting the fate of many. It is difficult, if not impossible, thing to understand, yet we feel compelled to describe it as though it has meaning - even virtue. It starts for reasons often hopelessly obscure, meanders on, then stops.
Errol Morris
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Aristotle
For we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use.
Aristotle
If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously only resembled Virtue, will now be Virtue in the true sense. Hence just as with the faculty of forming opinions [the calculative faculty] there are two qualities, Cleverness and Prudence, so also in the moral part of the soul there are two qualities, natural virtue and true Virtue; and true Virtue cannot exist without Prudence.
Aristotle
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
Aristotle
It Justice is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete because its possessor can exercise it in relation to another person, and not only by himself.
Aristotle
There must be in prudence also some master virtue.
Aristotle
Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.
William Ames
No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.
William Kingdon Clifford
Those only deserve a monument who do not need one; that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of men.
William Hazlitt
It is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one.
George Washington
War is such a peculiar thing - inaugurated by the whims of few, affecting the fate of many. It is difficult, if not impossible, thing to understand, yet we feel compelled to describe it as though it has meaning - even virtue. It starts for reasons often hopelessly obscure, meanders on, then stops.
Errol Morris
