“Faith is not a virtue, but a character flaw.”
" Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ faith https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2016/09/14/jesus-n-mo-n-faith-3/" September 14, 2016
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American biologist 1949Related quotes
“The queen of virtues is the recognition of one’s own flaws.”
Jack McDevitt (1935) American novelist, Short story writer
Source: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Omega (2003), Chapter 33 (p. 349)
“There is no worse flaw in man's character than that of wanting to belong.”
David Adams Richards (1950) Canadian writer and politician
Source: Mercy Among the Children
“In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice.”
Jerry Coyne (1949) American biologist
Coyne (2011) " For the love of God... scientists in uproar at £1m religion prize http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/for-the-love-of-god-scientists-in-uproar-at-1631m-religion-prize-2264181.html" on independent.co.uk, April 6, 2011
“Character is the virtue of hard times.”
Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970) eighteenth President of the French Republic
Le caractère, vertu des temps difficiles.
in Le fil de l’épée.
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Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), XI : The Practical Problem
Context: My conduct must be the best proof, the moral proof, of my supreme desire; and if I do not end by convincing myself, within the bounds of the ultimate and irremediable uncertainty of the truth of what I hope for, it is because my conduct is not sufficiently pure. Virtue, therefore, is not based upon dogma, but dogma upon virtue, and it is not faith that creates martyrs but martyrs who create faith. There is no security or repose — so far as security and repose are obtainable in this life, so essentially insecure and unreposeful — save in conduct that is passionately good.
“I'm a flawed character… I viewed this situation as one big lie that I repeated a lot of times.”
Lance Armstrong (1971) professional cyclist from the USA
Lance Armstrong Admits to Doping, 'One Big Lie' http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323468604578248582288523660.html, as reported in the Wall Street Journal, January 18, 2013.
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) Swiss philosopher
[2003, Survey of Metaphysics and Esoterism, World Wisdom, 220, 978-0-94153227-3]
Spiritual life, Happiness
