Virtuously Quotes
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Pursue Virtue virtuously.
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Karma moves in two directions. If we act virtuously, the seed we plant will result in happiness. If we act non-virtuously, suffering results.
Sakyong mipham— Ruling Your World: Ancient Strategies for Modern Life
Antique art has come down to us in a fragmentary condition, and we have virtuously adapted our taste to this necessity. Almost all our favorite specimens of Greek sculpture, from the sixth century onward, were originally parts of compositions, and if we were faced with the complete group in which the Charioteer of Delphi was once a subsidiary figure, we might well experience a moment of revulsion. We have come to think of the fragment as more vivid, more concentrated, and more authentic.
kenneth clark— Ch. VI: Pathos
Living virtuously is equal to living in accordance with one's experience of the actual course of nature
chrysippus— As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, vii. 182.
Living virtuously is equal to living in accordance with one's experience of the actual course of nature
— As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, vii. 182.
Virtues are dispositions not only to act in particular ways, but also to feel in particular ways. To act virtuously is not, as Kant was later to think, to act against inclination; it is to act from inclination formed by the cultivation of the virtues.
alasdair macintyre— p. 149 (After Virtue (1981))
