“Love is the virtue of the Heart,
Sincerity is the virtue of the Mind,
Decision is the virtue of the Will,
Courage is the virtue of the Spirit.”
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Source: The Courage to Create (1975), Ch. 1 : The Courage to Create, p. 13
Context: Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
Letter to S. Stanwood Menken, chairman, committee on Congress of Constructive Patriotism (January 10, 1917). Roosevelt’s sister, Mrs. Douglas Robinson, read the letter to a national meeting, January 26, 1917. Reported in Proceedings of the Congress of Constructive Patriotism, Washington, D.C., January 25–27, 1917 (1917), p. 172
1910s
“Is sincerity a virtue by itself? A serial killer has also acted sincerely.”
Tarik Gunersel (1953) Turkish actor
Oluşmak (To Become) Aphorisms (Pan Publishing House, Istanbul, 2011)
“To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.”
George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
Source: The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. II, Reason in Society, Ch. III: Industry, Government, and War
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) Swiss philosopher
[2012, Echoes of Perennial Wisdom, World Wisdom, 17, 978-1-93659700-0]
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“Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
No. 166.
The Guardian (1713)
“There is no access to the Heart without the virtues.”
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) Swiss philosopher
[2012, Echoes of Perennial Wisdom, World Wisdom, 16, 978-1-93659700-0]
Spiritual path, Virtue