Herbert Spencer Quotes
It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
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As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
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Self-denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
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Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world - they embraced targeted marketing and 'brand' as a virtue higher than ratings.
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Many of us have a mental conception of what a Christian should be, and the lives of the saints become a hindrance to our concentration on God.
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You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.
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Your true self is a treasure of all divine virtues.
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Conception of a film starts with the music. Always. I hear the movie before I can ever write it. I would say that 80% of the time, that's the successful stuff. It's the other stuff I have to work for to get right, and sometimes it doesn't work out, but the music is always the beginning. So I'm still a music journalist.
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There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.
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As far as I know, there is no proof whatever of the existence of an objective reality apart from our senses, and I do not see why we should accept the outside world as such solely by virtue of our senses.
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It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live!
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We cannot have right virtue without right conditions.
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There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
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The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
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No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.
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Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.
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Music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please yourself first. The pleasure of other people is a byproduct of the pleasure that comes from yourself so again I cannot judge or look down on someone who does whatever they feel like doing.
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It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.
