“The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.”
No. 68.
Aphorisms (1930)
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“These things are the foes of morality. They subvert all natural conceptions of virtue.”
What Would You Substitute for the Bible as a Moral Guide? (1900)
Context: These religions teach the slave virtues. They make inanimate things holy, and falsehoods sacred. They create artificial crimes. To eat meat on Friday, to enjoy yourself on Sunday, to eat on fast-days, to be happy in Lent, to dispute a priest, to ask for evidence, to deny a creed, to express your sincere thought, all these acts are sins, crimes against some god, To give your honest opinion about Jehovah, Mohammed or Christ, is far worse than to maliciously slander your neighbor. To question or doubt miracles. is far worse than to deny known facts. Only the obedient, the credulous, the cringers, the kneelers, the meek, the unquestioning, the true believers, are regarded as moral, as virtuous. It is not enough to be honest, generous and useful; not enough to be governed by evidence, by facts. In addition to this, you must believe. These things are the foes of morality. They subvert all natural conceptions of virtue.
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
“Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.”
Discourse V, pt. 9.
The Idea of a University (1873)
Stanza 8
An die Freude (Ode to Joy; or Hymn to Joy) (1785)
“Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.”
As quoted in A Toolbox for Humanity : More Than 9000 Years of Thought (2004) by Lloyd Albert Johnson, p. 147
“Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world”
Sec. 70
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
Context: Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.