Wisdom in SpaceKindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll
WIST QuotationsA quotation from Brennan Manning
The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. Suddenly I discover that I am ministering to AIDS victims to enhance my resume. I find I renounced ice cream for Lent to lose five excess pounds. I drop hints about the absolute priority of meditation and contemplation to create the impression that I am a man of prayer. At some unremembered moment I have lost the connection between internal purity of heart and external works of piety. In the most humiliating sense of the word, I have become a legalist. I have fallen victim to what T.S. Eliot calls the greatest sin: to do the right thing for the wrong reason.Brennan Manning (1934-2013) American author, laicized priest, theologian, speaker [Richard Francis Xavier Manning]
The Ragamuffin Gospel, ch. 7 “Paste Jewelry and Sawdust Hot Dogs” (1990)
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Manning, Brennan - The Ragamuffin Gospel, ch. 7 "Paste Jewelry and Sawdust Hot Dogs" (1990) | WIST Quotations
The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. Suddenly I discover that I am ministering to AIDS victims to enhance my resume. I find I renounced ice cream for Lent to lose five excess pounds. I…
A quotation from Richard Steele
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body: as by the one, health is preserved, strengthened and invigorated; by the other, virtue, which is the health of the mind, is kept alive, cherished and confirmed. But as exercise becomes tedious and painful when we make use of it only as the means of health, so reading is apt to grow uneasy and burdensome, when we apply ourselves to it only for our improvement in virtue. For this reason, the virtue which we gather from a sable, or an allegory, is like the health we get by hunting; as we are engaged in an agreeable pursuit that draws us on with pleasure, and makes us insensible of the fatigues that accompany it.Richard Steele (1672-1729) Irish writer and politician
Essay (1709-03-17), The Tatler, No. 147
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Steele, Richard - Essay (1709-03-17), The Tatler, No. 147 | WIST Quotations
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body: as by the one, health is preserved, strengthened and invigorated; by the other, virtue, which is the health of the mind, is kept alive, cherished and confirmed. But as exercise becomes tedious and painful when we make use of…
A quotation from Josh Billings
I hav known people who waz virtewous just bekauze they waz lazy, they hadn’t snap enuff in them tew brake one of the 10 commandments.[I have known people who were virtuous just because they were lazy; they hadn’t snap enough in them to break one of the Ten Commandments.]
Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1874-01 (1874 ed.)
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Billings, Josh - Josh Billings' Farmer's Allminax, 1874-01 (1874 ed.) | WIST Quotations
I hav known people who waz virtewous just bekauze they waz lazy, they hadn't snap enuff in them tew brake one of the 10 commandments. [I have known people who were virtuous just because they were lazy; they hadn't snap enough in them to break one of the Ten Commandments.]…
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SN 45.150 Bījasutta: Seeds
“Based upon virtue, established upon virtue, a bhikkhu develops and cultivates the Noble Eightfold Path.…”
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lobsterDear Friends of Free sPeach,
As you may know:
1) Some of us are a disorganiz-sation of 1-cat (I do have an #invisible cat called #Bast)
2) ...and yet we can. Speak on #Mastodon by #virtue (mostly) of our #American bothers and siestas (error corrected: brothers and #sisters)
3) Shirley and aero-plainly it must be time to be a de-influencer. Am on it with apologies to the pro's (are they our secret wealth tax yet?)
4) OK, created a rant about two #Cambridge UK based companies. I does my best to be worldly, supporting #Gaia (Earth 1 and only). Hope you can forgive all my pausing whilst I search for info. Yep I could remove all the pauses in Audacity. BUT I am not an influencer but a rantcustard/rantcaster. Sorry! I even swore. Bloody Hell! I iz bad!
PhilosophicsI've shared my thoughts on Alasdair MacIntyre before, but a follower asked me to comment on a Philosophize This! segment on a couple of books he published after After Virtue, and so I did.
I share a link to the video content as well as a NotebookLM podcast summary.
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I've always been leery of the AI debate over creative content – audio or visual media, including written material. A recent interview between Rick Beato and Justin Hawkins provided me with a frame.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/04/10/art-or-content/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
It reminds me of the old argument between high and low art, another bollocksed argument in my opinion. Homey don't play dat.
#philosophy #music #art #ai #language #perception #popculture #popmusic #protectionism #psychology #society #taste #technology #video #virtue #writing
Coach Pāṇini ®Y’all, #MaryGraceWooten of #EastTennessee needs all the boost, attention, and vibes of solidarity you can muster for #American #virtue.
