The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Aristotle deemed courage to be the first virtue, because it makes all the other possible.
Since the late 1970s, 163 million female babies have been aborted by parents seeking sons.
No single virtue is, on its own, necessarily virtuous.
Believe it or not, philosophy has consequences.
This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I should not have been found wanting. A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.
What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.
life is a loaded gun that looks right at you with a yellow eye.
I've seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it's all gone wrong. That's when we define ourselves.