Friday, March 07, 2008

Philosophy for Dummies by Tom Morris...

  • failure or success in the struggle for existence is the sole moral stand. Good is what survives. -W. sOMERSET mAUGHAM
  • silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes curretn all over the world.-Euripides
  • knowlege is power. -Francis Bacon
  • beauty is the promise of happiness.
  • there are two kind of beauty. Loveliness is dominant in the one and dignity in the other.
  • wherever there is a human being there's the opportunity for a kindness. _Seneca
  • I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living. - Booker T. Washington
  • the good person loves people and uses things, while the bad person loves things and uses people. -Sydney J. Harris
  • the meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting. -Emerson
  • A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of the another and of many others; the pleasures and pains of his species must become his own.-Percy Bysshe shelly.
  • it is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

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