Quotes About Good

Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.

You can take all the precautions in the world and worry yourself like crazy, but each individual comes to this world with a life to live, no matter how long or how good or how scary it might be.

The monsters aren't always in the closet or under the bed. Sometimes they're right in front of you, only everyone thinks they're the good guys.

To the pure, all things are pure," Antryg remarked, in Magister Magus' best soothsayer voice, "and to the unimaginative, all things are devilish.

Evil was a stupid word. It had the same sort of sense, largely meaningless, amorphous, diffuse, wooly, as applied to "love." Everyone had a vague idea of what it meant but none could precisely have defined it. It seemed, in a way, to imply something supernatural.

Justice cannot be exerted in a vacuum where there is neither good nor evil, right nor wrong.

Evil is the rejection of the infinite for the finite.

To create is to love, to will the creature for itself. The creature is therefore willed as its own end. God wills that the creature should be. He wills it in the interest of the creature. He wills its good, and its good consists in the realization of its being.

Now those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth, and let me remind you they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyranny.

The truth is that most of us see what we are looking for in this world. If we are looking for evil we find it. The reason is not merely that evil exists all around us. There is another reason, far more potent. By looking for evil in our fellow creatures we bring out evil either from them or from ourselves, perhaps from both.

It's a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.

But Billy had done good deeds all the time. So had John Wayne Gacy, and dozens of others. It didn't matter. It was all part of the disguise. Jazz realized that he couldn't trust even his noblest impulses. They might not be genuine. They might just be camouflage.

The way that the meal or the music or the movie makes you feel in the moment—either good or bad—could be called experienced utility.

Wickedness is too common in the world for us to think much of why and wherefore. It is more natural to ask about the rarer thing and wonder why people sometimes do good.

Store well Life's sheaves, the grains of thought-- Your harvest will be good, If sheaves are bound by ties of love, And evil you've withstood.

The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men...

I saw that all the things I feared and which feared me had nothing good or bad in them save in so far as the mind was affected by them.

Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.

men, in so far as they live in obedience to reason necessarily do only such things as are necessarily good for human nature, and consequently for each individual man.

I realised that all the things which were the source and object of my anxiety held nothing of good or evil in themselves save in so far as the mind was influenced by them,

Such things as are good simply because they have been commanded or instituted, or as being symbols of something good, are mere shadows which cannot be reckoned among actions that are the offspring, as it were, or fruit of a sound mind and of intellect.

The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.

that the foundation of all good and evil is love falling on a certain object. For whenever we do not love that object which alone is worthy of being loved, i.e. God, there follow necessarily from that hate and sadness.

seulement la foi vraie et la raison qui nous conduisent à la connaissance du bien et du mal.