ethics

"The characteristics of Sadhuguna, Satwaguna, and peace and all such qualities, come from non-attachment. When Buddhi becomes steady, it is called Satwaguna. Sat is like letters engraved in stone. The …"

"I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm."

"Those who are prone, by temperament and character, to seek sharp and clear-cut solutions of difficult and obscure problems, who are ready to fight whenever some challenge comes from a foreign power, h…"

"It is a commonplace that eternity is not an endless prolongation of time, has nothing to do with time. Eternity is a characteristic of the mystical experience. The word eternity doubtless meant origin…"

"Pride and Vanity have built more Hospitals than all the Virtues together."

"He had had a warning, a practical moral lesson which had merely arrived, as such things often do, rather after date."

"I also respond very strongly to characters I have not done before... something I can really sink my teeth into, and what's scary, and what terrifies me, because that's where I need to go."

"It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and it is the way of the mean man to seek notoriety, while he daily goes more and mo…"

"Larry had a great word for : he said that she gives "luster". And she did; she was like the pearl that smoothed over all this kind of rough, kind of low-minded behavior of the other three characters."

":To be humble to Superiors is Duty, to Equals Courtesy, to Inferiors Nobleness."

"Spinoza's ethics has nothing to do with a morality; he conceives it as an ethology, that is, as a composition of fast and slow speeds, of capacities for affecting and being affected on this plane of i…"

"The bar was worse than shitty. Shitty had character. The place was generic. Fake stone meant to echo a tunnel on Ceres or Pallas marked with graffiti to make it look edgy until you noticed that the pa…"

"Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player."

"We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates."

"Marxism comprises many principles, but in the final analysis they can all be brought back to a single sentence: it is right to rebel."

"Exercise is the technique by which one imposes on the body tasks that are both repetitive and different, but always graduated. By bending behavior towards a terminal state, exercise makes possible a p…"

"The world has far too much morality."

"Crimes, like Virtues, are their own Rewards."

"And when we look closely, we find a system of morals which any civilised person today should surely find poisonous."

"Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear."