Quotes About Living A Virtuous Life

#1. The "virtue hypothesis" claims that living a virtuous life makes you happier.

Anonymous

#2. Why are numbers beautiful? It's like asking why is Beethoven's Ninth Symphony beautiful.
If you don't see why, someone can't tell you. I know numbers are beautiful.
If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.

Paul Erdos

#3. It was night in the lonesome October
Of my most immemorial year ...

Edgar Allan Poe

#4. The reductio ad absurdum is God's favorite argument.

George Tyrrell

#5. Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.

Jodi Picoult

#6. Humility is first, second and third in Christianity.

Saint Augustine

#7. Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#8. Wanting nothing more than for it to unravel, unbind.

John Southcross

#9. How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation.

Evelyn Waugh

#10. We, as Americans, have won the lottery of life and the distinction between us and people living in Kalighat is not that we are smarter, not that we're harder working, not that we're more virtuous - it's that we're luckier.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#11. I decided, on the spot, to let God into my heart, in the hope that my newfound faith can somehow be used as a vicious weapon in the marital war.

Nick Hornby

#12. All the other virtues, and the living of a virtuous life, depend on them. If you took an introductory philosophy course in college, they were probably translated from the Greek as courage, justice, temperance, and prudence.

Charles Murray

#13. We see less of Dave, certainly, and he's kind of fallen out of the sphere of our group, mostly because he's working on his show, and has kind of lost the fun of the party.

Bruce McCulloch

#14. Race has no genetic or scientific basis.

Craig Venter

#15. I was maybe 10 or 11 when I saw 'Titanic.' And, yes, I was a fan. I loved it.

Ellen Page

#16. The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.

James Russell Lowell

#17. Such is the joy of concluding a day performing duties earnestly leaving ends upon His feet! I have nothing to gain here except virtues, nothing to lose except love, O Lord, I am here to breathe the beauty of life!

Preeth Nambiar

#18. I couldn't change the past, but hell if I didn't want to be what Kate needed now.

Nicole Jacquelyn

#19. Nature attunes children to receive the coded messages that parents issue how to live a joyful and virtuous life.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#20. There is no one true church.

Pat Buckley

#21. A look into the Human Mind..of how we perceive..How can we see beauty in and around us..Not the correction of evil or pursuit of the virtuous..BUT..pleasure that resides in the Sense of Self !! A Self living in a state of 'nothingness' and beauty as it lies there..from that place! Simple and Deft

Abha Maryada Banerjee