How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
Michael Schur
Top 10 Best Quotes
“in the words of Samuel Beckett: Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. —MAYA ANGELOU”
“true happiness comes from remaining focused on the things we do, and doing them with no purpose other than to do them.”
“A person is a person through other people.”
“Quoting the great Enlightenment philosopher Montesquieu, she tells us that “ ‘knowledge makes men gentle,’ just as ignorance hardens us.”
“in as few words as possible, how to try to pull off the nearly impossible task of living a good life on earth. Here’s what they wrote: Know thyself. and Nothing in excess.”
“The individual does not and cannot exist alone.… He owes his existence to other people including those of past generations and his contemporaries. He is simply part of the whole.… Whatever happens to the individual happens to the whole group, and whatever happens to the whole group happens to the individual. The individual can only say, “I am, because we are; and since we are therefore I am.”
“Nature, habit, and teaching,” says Aristotle, “are all needed.” Because flourishing, you see, doesn’t just require us to identify and then acquire all of these virtues—it requires that we have every one in the exact right amount. We have to be generous but not too generous, courageous but not too courageous, and so on.”
“in those rare times when you have to make a decision and you assemble the pieces in exactly the right way, so the image of what to do comes sharply into focus—you will feel alive and fulfilled and elated. You will feel like you’re flourishing.”
“This habituation, the practice of working at our virtues, is really the whole shebang here.”
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