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Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
It is our common experience as human beings that the results of social forces seem to admit only of 'probabilistic' predictions.
The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.
I've always thought a novelist only has one character, and that is himself or herself. In my case, me.
When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.
Violence is always the last option, but if that time comes, it is the ONLY option.
I was never one for multi-cameras; my approach was always... I always considered there was only one place to be to do a shot.
I only take vitamin B complex. Before World War II, I used to take ionized yeast, because in the pre-war era we never heard about vitamins.
Growing up, the only acts that came to us in Alaska were the big ones. The Mariah Careys.
We have affirmed the principle that a mature relationship between nations - as between individuals - can only flourish in an atmosphere of mutual respect.
The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger.
The only sliding I did was on the kind of instrument that you put on your lap; no Spanish electrics.
We have been told many times that we have become too big, but these are things that only someone who has no idea of the size of the competition can say. We are too small.
Senator Kerry voted to undermine the troops in the field, and that is not only inexcusable, it is reprehensible.
We were gradually playing larger venues and in the early days PA systems were kind of non-existent. So to play loud, we had to use louder equipment. The PA systems back then didn't mic the instruments - only the vocals.
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
I'm OK with having a really good football player with a chip on his shoulder because he's going to come to prove to not only the people that didn't draft him, but himself, that I'm a pretty good football player.
The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves.
There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.
I use a wide selection of colours. It is impossible to produce work like mine using only the primary colours as they only mix a certain range of colour.
I'm very close to suggesting that Mr. Pitt has now served as long as he can usefully do so. He seems to take his foot out of his mouth only for purposes of changing feet.
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
Mr. Chairman, the price for continuing this war is too high, not only in budgetary terms, but in American lives, Iraqi civilian casualties blamed on America and in the steady increase in the terrorist ranks that this war is provoking around the globe.
The Magna Carta is widely known to be one of the foundational documents for our Constitution. I can only imagine that a mention of that in a court decision would be forbidden by our friends on the right.
I was too old to be a punk rocker. I was a mod, that's really the only youth tribe I ever belonged to - and even then, not for very long.
A lot of the stuff that I say doesn't even make TV because it gets cut out. So if you're at the live events you get to hear what I have to say, but if you're watching on TV, you're only getting about 50% of it.
In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.
Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are taking up their pens to paint a portrait of Jesus.
We are discovering what the universe is really like, and it is totally magnificent, and one can only be inspired and awestruck by what we find.
The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.
Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.
To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them.
Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
The Union next to our liberties the most dear. May we all remember that it can only be preserved by respecting the rights of the States, and distributing equally the benefits and burdens of the Union.
It is a universal and fundamental political principle that the power to protect can safely be confided only to those interested in protecting, or their responsible agents - a maxim not less true in private than in public affairs.
There was no measure that required greater caution or more severe scrutiny than one to impose taxes or raise a loan, be the form what it may. I hold that government has no right to do either, except when the public service makes it imperiously necessary, and then only to the extent that it requires.
When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship.
The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.
I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.
But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them.
But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.
Sometimes, instead of purchasing a commodity out and out, people want to buy only the use of it, for a longer or shorter period. The price paid for such temporary use is commonly called hire.
At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.
Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States.
I want to make sure that, not only in the Republican Party but in the body politic as a whole, people are aware of threats that remain to the United States.
I only storyboard scenes that require special effects, where it is necessary to communicate through pictures.
As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.
When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes.
You only can live on adrenaline for so long; one thing is for sure, it doesn't pay the bills.
The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives have become busier: jobs, children, and the like.
In a recent decision of the Supreme Court, not made, however, by the full court, and concurred in by only four justices, it was held that the seller of a patented mimeograph could bind the purchaser to use only his ink in the machine, though the ink was not patented.
If you only take offense when the president of your party is compared to Hitler, then you're part of the problem.
After this urgent protest against entering into battle at Gettysburg according to instructions - which protest is the first and only one I ever made during my entire military career - I ordered my line to advance and make the assault.
It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine.
My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England.
The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific receptivity for particular stimuli.
For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and these can come in the form of electromagnetic waves only from accelerated electric quanta.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
We need do no more than repeat: only under communism does the individual become himself and lead his own life.
History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.
Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.
If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.
Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.
Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots.
We shot 'Dharma & Greg' six blocks from my house for five years. I had a Dodge Durango that I sold after five years, and it only had like 12,000 miles on it. My whole life was within eight square blocks of my house. There was a golf course across the street. In my downtime, I was on the driving range.
We only want autonomous collaborators that are incentivized to make or break their own income.
The human diet, for millions of years, did not contain any added salt - only the sodium present in natural foods, adding up to only about 1000 mg sodium per day.
Raw leafy greens contain only about 100 calories per pound and are packed with nutrients.
Satisfying as that 'Cabaret' role was, it is not the only thing I do. But Hollywood is somewhat limited in its perspective about what it is you do or don't do.
This is a game, first and foremost. There was only one Vince Lombardi, and he died.
Some of the greatest national security threats we face cannot be defeated or defended by traditional military hardware, but only by greatly enhanced cyberspace warfare, including both offensive cyber-warfare and cyber-security.
Jerry often says that Slam Bradley was really the forerunner of Superman, because we turned it out with no restrictions, complete freedom to do what we wanted; the only problem was that we had a deadline.
Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing.
Since this was the first and only series I had ever produced, I was unaware of what the 'Normal' environment was for a studio. I tried to run it as I did in my SF studio.
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