The ungentlemanly expressions and gasconading conduct of yours relative to me yesterday was in true character of yourself and unma...sk you to the world and plainly show that they were ebullitions of a base mind ... and flow from a source devoid of every refined sentiment or delicate sensations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the wa...y in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentia...lly in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What we often take to be family values--the work ethic, honesty, clean living, marital fidelity, and individual responsibility--ar...e in fact social, religious, or cultural values. To be sure, these values are transmitted by parents to their children and are familial in that sense. They do not, however, originate within the family. It is the value of close relationships with other family members, and the importance of these bonds relative to other needs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The service of philosophy, and of religion and culture as well, to the human spirit, is to startle it into a sharp and eager obser...vation. Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive for us,--for that moment only.... How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses?... To burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. Failure is to form habits; for habit is relative to a stereotypical world; meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One will meet, for example, the virtual assumption that what is relative to thought cannot be real. But why not, exactly? Red is r...elative to sight, but the fact that this or that is in that relation to vision that we call being red is not itself relative to sight; it is a real fact.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An indirect quotation we can usually expect to rate only as better or worse, more or less faithful, and we cannot even hope for a ...strict standard of more and less; what is involved is evaluation, relative to special purposes, of an essentially dramatic act.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Families and societies are small and large versions of one another. Both are made up of people who have to work together, whose de...stinies are tied up with one another. Each features the components of a relationship: leaders perform roles relative to the led, the young to the old, and male to female; and each is involved with the process of decision-making, use of authority, and the seeking of common goals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »