Quotes About Good

Envy is grieving at the good of another, than which no sin is more offensive to God, nor more injurious to our neighbour and ourselves.

No good can be expected from a righteous and holy God to sinful creatures, but by his mediation.

If you desire to be a person of hope, a person who has the will that what is good might be reality, you must be a person of two things: meaning and action.

If animals are just commodities, then we are just consumers, with no greater good than material pleasure and no higher law than appetite.

Spinoza tells us that we do not desire or detest things because we judge them to be good or evil; we judge them good or evil because we desire or detest them.

Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time. You could go from love to hate. But you cannot, at the same time — toward the same object, the same person — want to harm and want to do good.

E]vil as an ontological presence exists in the very structure of being as part of a totality comprising opposites. Moreover, it exists because being is a structure and process of possibility, and possibility requires all options . . . Maat and isfet and their innumerable variations.

I have only my brightness, which Man does not understand…. But I watch over him to the end of his days…. Never forget that I am speaking to you in every spreading moonbeam, in every twinkling star, in every dawn that rises, in every lamp that is lit, in every good and bright thought of your soul…

Through the whole course of history, two distinct willpowers have been noticed that would seem to be the opposed, elemental manifestations of the spirit of our globe, the one seeking only evil, injustice, tyranny and suffering, while the other strives for liberty, the right, radiance and joy.

There is only one expression for truth: the thought which repudiates injustice. If insistence on the good sides of life is not sublated in the negative whole, it transfigures its own opposite: violence.

Only the free and personal man is a good citizen (realist), and even with the lack of particular (scholarly, artistic, etc)culture, a tasteful judge (humanist).

it is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true. Anyone who fails to see this is, indeed, a political infant.

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

Upon Good Earth, lay the body down, open the mouth wide, let song rush through.

I'm bad without personal benefit, and good only when I'm irresponsible. Sort of a sinful angel, an immoral virgin, an honest criminal.

Htio sam da ga pitam, zar do slobode da se do?e nasiljem? Zar se protiv zla mora upotrijebiti zlo? I ko ?e to drugo zlo iskorijeniti? I kako ga zaboraviti? Ali ako to kažem, zamrzi?e me, prezre?e me. Zadrža?u se na poeziji. Ali šta da kažem? I ovdje sam sam, i ovdje sam kriv, i ovdje razbijam zbijeni red, ?vrst kao zid.

Saznao sam, i osje?ao sam se kriv, da je život beskrajno raznovrstan i u zlu i u dobru.

In the meantime, Bob was jumping up and down and pronouncing it was all "good good good," so good that he couldn't stop giggling with self-satisfied glee like a demented toddler.

Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.

Irony was new to her and tasted oddly good, like a previously unavailable summer fruit.

But I have to admit here that when he told me this story, my first, awful thought was: good material.

guess you're right," the woman said. "You blame everything on that one person. You think if that one person is gone, everything will be perfect and good." She slid her sunglasses back on. "But in the end, that person is you.

Bad is always afraid of good and that is the reason why bad tries to eliminate good!

Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!