The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the Gods with our affairs because they take no heed of our angers and disputes, we can never enough decry the disorderly sallies of our minds.

One salutary development in recent ethical theorizing is the widespread recognition that no short argument will serve to eliminate any of the major metaethical positions. Such theories have to weave together views in semantics, epistemology, moral psychology and metaphysics. The comprehensive, holistic character of much recent theorizing suggests the futility of fastening on just a single sort of argument to refute a developed version of realism or antirealism. No one any longer thinks that ethical naturalism can be undermined in a single stroke by the open question argument, or that appeal to the descriptive semantics of moral discourse is sufficient to refute noncognitivism.

? muito mais lisonjeiro,(...)lutar-se por alguma coisa bela e ideal e saber ao mesmo tempo que n?o se conseguir? alcan??-la. Os ideais ser?o algo que se possa alcan?ar? Viveremos para cabar com a morte? N?o, viveremos para tem?-la e tamb?m para am?-la, e precisamente por causa da morte ? que nossa vida vez por outra resplandece t?o radiosa num belo instante.

Staring at a world too horrible to comprehend, believing -- by dint of ignorance and innocence -- that beneath this unbearable contract of guilt and blame there is always an older contract that may bind and release in a more salutary way.

"I wish that all nations may recover and retain their independence; that those which are overgrown may not advance beyond safe measures of power, that a salutary balance may be ever maintained among nations, and that our peace, commerce, and friendship, may be sought and cultivated by all. It is our business to manufacture for ourselves whatever we can, to keep our markets open for what we can spare or want; and the less we have to do with the amities or enmities of Europe, the better. Not in our day, but at no distant one, we may shake a rod over the heads of all, which may make the stoutest of them tremble.

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science for they often endure long but false views if supported by some evidence do little harm for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.