Quotes About Goodness

Education must be seen as at least partially an effort to produce the good human being, to foster the good life and the good society."46

That was a tear of celebration, a tear of receptiveness to what is good in the world, a tear that says it's okay, relax, let down your guard, there are good people in the world, there is good in people, love is real, it's in our nature. That kind of tear is also like being pricked, only now the love pours in.

We're born to be righteous, but we have to learn what, exactly, people like us should be righteous about.

The third-century Persian prophet Mani preached that the visible world is the battleground between the forces of light (absolute goodness) and the forces of darkness (absolute evil).

Kant, like Plato, wanted to discover the timeless, changeless form of the Good. He believed that morality had to be the same for all rational creatures, regardless of their cultural or individual proclivities.

Live the life that unfolds before you- love goodness more than you fear evil.

A traitor is no fit king. Live the life that unfold before you. Love goodness more than you fear evil.

Love goodness more than you fear evil.

Judaism is a religion of rejoicing; of remembering where we came from, and therefore not taking our blessings for granted; of recalling the source of the good, and therefore not forgetting the larger truth that it comes to us from the hand of God; of knowing that what we have, God has placed in our trust, to be used for the good of all, not just ourselves.

Dualism is what happens when cognitive dissonance becomes unbearable, when the world as it is, is simply too unlike the world as we believed it ought to be. In the words of historian Jeffrey Russell, dualism 'denied the unity and omnipotence of God in order to preserve his perfect goodness'.3 The God

She was no demon — no magician — she was better than they were.

She has more goodness in her little finger, than he has in his whole body.

Be sweet, be good, and honest always.

The point is not that I don't recognise bad people when I see them — I grant you I may quite well be taken in by them — the point is that I know a good person when I see one.

Crede che in fin dei conti tutti siano buoni e degni d'attenzione, e a me fa sorridere e mi riempie anche di una gran dolcezza, e un po' mi fa invidia, nella sua casa magica nel bosco, ché vuole bene a tutti, e io, invece, Taxi Driver ed esistenzialista.

La verdadera inteligencia va de la mano de la bondad, o no es inteligencia.

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

Jangan iri kepada siapa pun, karena orang baik tidak layak diirikan. Sedangkan orang jahat, semakin mereka makmur, semakin mereka merusak diri sendiri.

Tidak mungkin kita hidup bahagia kalau kita hidup dengan sembrono, tidak melakukan perbuatan-perbuatan yang layak dan tidak berlaku adil. Orang yang tidak melakukan perbuatan-perbuatan yang baik, tidak bisa hidup dengan senang.

Il massimo bene è la prudenza. Per questo la prudenza è anche più pregevole della filosofia, e da essa hanno origine anche tutte le altre virtù, perché insegna come non è possibile una vita felice che non sia una vita saggia, bella e giusta, e non è possibile una vita saggia, bella e giusta che non sia felice. Le virtù sono infatti connaturate alla vita felice e la vita felice è da esse inseparabile.

The conventions of hedonism and of utility can, in fact, be extremely elaborate. Its motives, however, though perhaps wholly free of greed, remain strictly those of need. Goodness remains reducible to utility, rightness to prudence, beauty to aesthetic enjoyment. The point of reference is individual preference, not the generically human vision of a moral sense of life. What is missing is the recognition of intrinsic beauty, rightness, goodness.

Snakes, too, help recall the goodness of being. They have had a bad press, yet of all the creatures of the field, stream, and forest they are perhaps the most peaceful - and most shy.

Without the Gospel, I am only projecting behavioral modification. Changes of the heart must trump mere change of behavior. Therefore, the goodness of God through the gospel must trump all other philosophies in the home.

Our exceptionalness is not for us but for others. That is the paradox at the heart of who we are. So what makes us different has nothing to do with jingoism and nationalistic chest beating. If we have ever been great, it is only because we have been good. If we have ever been great, it is only because we have longed to help make others great too. That earnest humility and generosity must be attended to.  Ã¢â'¬Â¢