Quotes About Good

The critical rules and critical data are inextricably bound, so they are a good candidate for an object. We'll call this kind of object an Entity.1

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.

There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only

that virtue is sufficient for happiness, that nothing except virtue is good, and that the emotions are not to be trusted—

Fury of truth: fury of righteousness become angelic evil demonic good?

I've been thinking." Her eyebrows rose, but he was used to surprise whenever he claimed an idea. Even when his ideas were as good as theirs, they always remembered how deliberate he was in thinking of them.

If we do violence to oppose evil, soon we would be no different from what we struggle against. It is with the strength of our belief that we fight the Shadow.

There's always a balance, you know. Good and evil. Light and Shadow. We would not be human if there wasn't a balance

The Pattern is what is. The Wheel of Time weaves all lives into the Pattern, all actions. A pattern that is all one color is no pattern. For the Pattern of an Age, good and ill are the warp and the woof.

It often seemed strange that evil had left no outward mark.

Mat relaxed. His part of it was begun, according to plan. A hasty departure on short notice as if he were trying to sneak away south, but showy enough to make sure it was noticed. The combination would make him seem a fool, and that was to the good, too.

a few photographs, they hit page one. Denials, they come later—on page fifty—between salami ads.… Take your choice, Mr. Trevayne. But think it over good.

And what is written well and what is written badly...need we ask Lysias or any other poet or orator who ever wrote or will write either a political or other work, in meter or out of meter, poet or prose writer, to teach us this? What is good, PhÊdrus, and what is not good...need we ask anyone to tell us these things?

Peace of mind isn't at all superficial to technical work. It's the whole thing. That which produces it is good work and that which destroys it is bad work. The specs, the measuring instruments, the quality control, the final check-out, these are all means toward the end of satisfying the peace of mind of those responsible for the work. What really counts in the end is their peace of mind, nothing else.

the reality of the Good, represented by the Sophists, and the reality of the True, represented by the dialecticians, were engaged in a huge struggle for the future mind of man. Truth won, the Good lost, and that is why today we have so little difficulty accepting the reality of truth and so much difficulty accepting the reality of Quality, even though there is no more agreement in one area than in the other.

The fact that they were there as students presumed they did not know what was good or bad. That was his job as instructor...to tell them what was good or bad. The whole idea of individual creativity and expression in the classroom was really basically opposed to the whole idea of the University.

Some say the good is found in happiness. But how do we know what happiness is and how can happiness be defined? If happiness and good are not objective terms, we cannot deal with them scientifically and since they aren't objective, they just exist in your mind, so if you want to be happy, you just change your mind. Ha ha ha.

If they already knew what was good and bad, there was no reason for them to take the course in the first place. The fact that they were there as students presumed they did not know what was good or bad. That was his job as instructor—to tell them what was good or bad. The whole idea of individual creativity and expression in the classroom was really basically opposed to the whole idea of the University.

And what is good, and what is not good- need we ask anyone to tell us this things?

This level is egoistic in that rules and their application come from within and reflect conscience, where a transgression exacts the ultimate cost—having to live with yourself afterward. It recognizes that being good and being law-abiding aren't synonymous.

If it's the right person tickling you in that adolescent stage of being on the cusp of sexuality, maybe, just maybe, that tickling is going to be followed by something really good, like hand-holding. In contrast, if it's Slobodan Milosovic who is tickling you, maybe, just maybe, it will be followed up by his trying to ethnically cleanse you.

the structure of a page of good prose is, analyzed logically, not something frozen but the vibrating of a bridge, which changes with every step one takes on it

Versuch, das Erlebnis zu halten, zu fixieren, schlägt fehl. Die Absolutheit ist nicht zu bewahren. Ich schliesse daran, die Welt kann nicht ohne Böse bestehen, es bringt Bewegung in die Welt. Das Gute allein bewirkt Starre.

that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of good, and the devil take the hindmost