"Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics."

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Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

Ernest Sosa

#Special Quotes #Ethics Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“For me, self-discipline has never corresponded to a voluntary adhesion to norms invented by others. It has always been the first step towards breaking the chains.”

Source : Eugenio Barba (2009). “On Directing: Burning the House”, p.19, Routledge
“Flowers . . . have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the mind. They dissolve its rigor.”
“I like not lady-slippers, Nor yet the sweet-pea blossoms, Nor yet the flaky roses, Red or white as snow; I like the chaliced lilies, The heavy Eastern lilies, The gorgeous tiger-lilies, That in our garden grow.”
“I think that as Christians we need to walk the delicate balance between standing in opposition to same-sex marriages and yet showing that we can do that without becoming angry or hateful.”

Source : Source: www.christianpost.com
“What can be considered human emotions? Surely not only lyricism, sadness, tragedy? Doesn't laughter also have a claim to that lofty title? I want to fight for the legitimate right of laughter in serious music.”

Source : "Sovetskoye Iskusstvo", quoted in "Shostakovich: A Life", transl. by Laurel Fay (2000) p. 77, November 5, 1934.
“A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may not make sense.”
“I know that the history of man is not his technical triumphs, his kills, his victories. It is a composite, a mosaic of a trillion pieces, the account of each man's accommodation with his conscience. This is the true history of the race.”
“Take time for all things.”

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