Kant is the most evil man in mankind's history.
Man is the cruelest animal.
Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.
Once I find the right maxim to apply, I feel that I have done all that can be expected of me.
Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it has always worried you that what the virtue of wit contained was the vice of scorn.
Wisdom is an affair of values, and of value judgments. It is intelligent conduct of human affairs.
Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.
One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent… Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight.
Americans have become conditioned to believe the world is a gray place without absolutes; this is because we're simultaneously both cowardly and arrogant. We don't know the answers, so we assume they must not exist.
It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.
