"According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication."

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Irving Babbitt

#Sentimental Quotes #Ethics Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills.”
“All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]”
“I've got to be active in life, and it's the same when I'm doing stunts in a movie: I'll do anything.”
“The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.”

Source : Northrop Frye, Robert D. Denham, Jean O'Grady, David Staines (2003). “Northrop Frye on Canada”, p.468, University of Toronto Press
“About age 30 most women think about having children, most men think about dating them.”
“People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!”
“Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.”
“I am one of those irritating people, who hang on to the door-knob after they say good-bye, and will neither come back nor go, always remembering something else which must be said ...”

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