Vices Quotes - Page 28

• Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but the refusal to know.

  Ayn Rand

  Ignorance, Men, Evil

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.23, Penguin

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• I, too, seem to be a connoisseur of rain, but it does not fill me with joy; it allows me to steep myself in a solitude I nurse like a vice I've refused to vanquish.

  Julia Glass

  Rain, Nurse, Joy

  Julia Glass (2003). “Three Junes”, Vintage

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• It is said that any virtue when taken to an extreme can become a vice. Overscheduling our days would certainly qualify for this. There comes a point where milestones can become millstones and ambitions, albatrosses around our necks.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Taken, Ambition, Albatross

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• You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Made, Vice Versa, Mass

  "Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman". Book by James Gleick, 1992.

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• I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus, they suck the life right out of a party.

  Dennis Lehane

  Party, Self, People

  "Moonlight Mile". Book by Dennis Lehane, November 2, 2010.

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• What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.

  B. F. Skinner

  Names, What Is Love, Use

  B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.282, Hackett Publishing

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• Oh, 'tis not my qualities they object to! 'Tis my lack of vice.

  Georgette Heyer

  Quality, Objects

  Georgette Heyer (2011). “Powder And Patch”, p.44, Random House

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• The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Teacher, Inspiration

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• Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Cowardice, Terrible

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• Well in two months, it'd be sunbathing time. That made me smile. I enjoyed lying in the sun in a little bikini, timing myself carefully so I didn't burn. I loved the smell of coconut oil. And I don't want to hear any lectures about how bad tanning is for you. That's my vice. Everybody gets one.

  Charlaine Harris

  Lying, Two, Oil

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.1177, Penguin

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• Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism! You must achieve mastery over your idealism, over your virtue as well as over your vice, aesthetic mastery over everything that drives you to write in the first place - your outrage, your politics, your grief, your love!

  Philip Roth

  Art, Grief, Writing

  Philip Roth (1998). “I Married a Communist”, p.230, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Mum once told Dad that vices are only vices when looked at through the frame of society.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dad, Mum

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• In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities, but are continually trading places. A good may be transformed into an evil in the next second. And vice versa. Such was the way of the world that Dostoevsky depicted in The Brothers Karamazov. The most important thing is to maintain the balance between the constantly moving good and evil. If you lean too much in either direction, it becomes difficult to maintain actual morals. Indeed, balance itself is the good.

  Haruki Murakami

  Brother, Moving, Men

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• Whosoever will list himself under the banner of Christ, must, in the first place and above all things, make war upon his own lusts and vices. It is in vain for any man to usurp the name of Christian, without holiness of life, purity of manners, benignity and meekness of spirit.

  John Locke

  Christian, War, Men

  John Locke (1765). “Letters Concerning Toleration: By Iohn Locke”, p.33

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• If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.

  Grant Morrison

  Real, Book, Made

  Grant Morrison (2011). “Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero”, p.301, Random House

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• The inability to envision a certain kind of person doing a certain kind of thing because you've never seen someone who looks like him do it before is not just a vice. It's a luxury. What begins as a failure of the imagination ends as a market inefficiency: when you rule out an entire class of people from doing a job simply by their appearance, you are less likely to find the best person for the job.

  Michael Lewis

  Jobs, Class, Luxury

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• I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature... I shall, therefore, treat the nature and strength of the emotion in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Passion, Envy, Hatred

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• There are two kinds of discontented in this world, the discontented that works and the discontented that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants and the second loses what it has. There is no cure for the first but success and there is no cure at all for the second. The very worst of my vices and bad habits will abate of themselves if they are brought to an accounting every day.

  Og Mandino

  Hands, Two, World

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• Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Poison, Christianity, Drink

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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• The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Names, Double Standard, World

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2000). “Vanity Fair: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.952, Modern Library

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• The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment. Thus a man easily comes to console himself for all his other vices by a conviction that 'his heart's in the right place' and 'he wouldn't hurt a fly,' though in fact he has never made the slightest sacrifice for a fellow creature. We think we are kind when we are only happy: it is not so easy, on the same grounds, to imagine oneself temperate, chaste, or humble.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hurt, Kindness, Real

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• One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in.

  Diane Arbus

  Photograph, Vice Versa, One Thing

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• If we wish to draw philosophical conclusions about our own existence, our significance, and the significance of the universe itself, our conclusions should be based on empirical knowledge. A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa, whether or not we like the implications.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Philosophical, Mean, Reality

  Lawrence M. Krauss (2012). “A Universe From Nothing”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh, I don't know. I might grow on you." She furrowed her pretty eyebrows. "Like a cancer?" "Like a favorite vice.

  Ilona Andrews

  Cancer, Eyebrows, Might

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Fate's Edge”, p.111, NYLA

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• The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

  Erich Fromm

  Errors, People, Facts

  Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.74, Open Road Media

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