Erwin Schrodinger Quote

For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice. - Erwin Schrodinger

For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.

Erwin Schrodinger

Virtue

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Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.

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Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues. - Franz Kafka

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. - Abraham Lincoln

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

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Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised. - Juvenal

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

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Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! - Charles Dickens

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask. - Victor Hugo

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

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A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues. - Plutarch

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

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Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. - Rene Descartes

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues. - Quintilian

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

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An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish. - Erwin Schrodinger

An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.

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The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast. - Buddha

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

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Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me. - Reese Witherspoon

Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me.

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Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people. - Jean de La Fontaine

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

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In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. - Charles Darwin

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice. - Quintilian

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One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. - Maya Angelou

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

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Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality. - Hermann Minkowski

Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality.

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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor. - Thomas Jefferson

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

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