The precursors of physical science once followed the same practice, but the wind is no longer blown by Aeolus, nor is the rain cast down by Jupiter Pluvius. Language is a very hard thing to put into words. We probably live our way into a system of thinking rather than think our way into a pattern of living. This means that living is more influential in determining thinking than thinking is in determining living. Quote is on p. 141.
Moral virtues come from habits . . .
They are not in us neither by nature, nor in despite of nature, but we are furnished by nature with a capacity for receiving them, and we develop them through habit . . . Heaven is a place in which the police are British, the cooks are French, the mechanics are Germans, the lovers Italian, and everything is organized by the Swiss, Hell is a place in which the police are German, the cooks are British, the mechanics are French, the lovers are Swiss, and everything is organized by the Italians. Go to main screen. Go to unix shell. Messages stay on the server 7.