Quotes About Philosophy

D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the reasons I became a scientist was not to have to think about that kind of thing.

Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

The French philosopher Pierre-Hyacinthe Azaïs (1766-1845) formalized the statement that good and evil fortune are exactly balanced in that they produce for each person an equivalent result.

Good and evil - I don't believe that there is hanging out there, anywhere, something called good and something called evil.

The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.

Evil has no need to bother with eliminating Good. It's far simpler to let Good fight against itself.

Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me.

There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.

You have good games, you have bad games. You have good years, you have bad years. I have always been kind of philosophical about that.

Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.

The thing that interests me is the good and evil in everybody. I don't have conventional heroes in the films that I directed, because I believe there's good and evil in everybody.

Active evil is better than passive good

All good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates in the soul, and overflows from thence, as if from the head into the eyes.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

Anarchy is a state of society where the only government is reason.

All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.

A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.

'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.

The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

The Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. They believe that 'the best government is that which governs least,' and that which governs least is no government at all.