The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues in a vigorous way.
The web of hypocrisy of today hangs on the frontiers of two domains, between which our time swings back and forth, attaching its fine threads of deception and self-deception. No longer vigorous enough to serve morality without doubt or weakening, not yet reckless enough to live wholly to egoism, it trembles now toward the one and now toward the other in the spider-web of hypocrisy, and, crippled by the curse of halfness, catches only miserable, stupid flies.
Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.
Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop.
Photography is the easiest thing in the world if one is willing to accept pictures that are flaccid, limp, bland, banal, indiscriminately informative, and pointless. But if one insists in a photograph that is both complex and vigorous it is almost impossible
Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.
Umpires are most vigorous when defending their miscalls.
A man who has bought a theory will fight a vigorous rearguard action against the facts.
This root [the potato], no matter how much you prepare it, is tasteless and floury. It cannot pass for an agreeable food, but it supplies a food sufficiently abundant and sufficiently healthy for men who ask only to sustain themselves. The potato is criticized with reason for being windy, but what matters windiness for the vigorous organisms of peasants and laborers?
Donald Trump is somebody who I think likes to mix it up and to have a vigorous debate.
It drops us into a vigorous current, a constant state of misguided control. The doomed generation takes a final step forward, ignoring all the signs that state the obvious, and leaps into a trip no drug known to man could ever encompass.
The less you can enjoy, the poorer, the scantier yourself,--the more you can enjoy, the richer, the more vigorous.
My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents.
The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable. Science and democracy began - in their civilized incarnations - in the same time and place, Greece in the seventh and sixth centuries B. C. . . . Science thrives on, indeed requires, the free exchange of ideas; its values are antithetical to secrecy. Science holds to no special vantage points or privileged positions. Both science and democracy encourage unconventional opinions and vigorous debate. Both demand adequate reason, coherent argument, rigorous standards of evidence and honesty.
True wisdom for a general is vigorous determination.
True mindfulness is the awareness that everything you encounter is a vigorous expression of the same living universe as you.
If a [democratic] society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; pleasures will be less outrageous and wellbeing will be shared by all; the sciences will be on a smaller scale but ignorance will be less common; opinions will be less vigorous and habits gentler; you will notice more vices and fewer crimes.
If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.
Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.
Self-reliance is the key to a vigorous life. A man must look inward to find his own answers.