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The
Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding,
many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind
of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to
criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around.
-- Mary Mccarthy
1912-1989, American Author,
Critic
Being good is
just a matter of temperament in the end.
-- Iris Murdoch
1919-, British Novelist,
Philosopher
What is good?
All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power,
power itself in man.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher
On the whole,
human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not
quite all the time.
-- George Orwell
1903-1950, British Author,
''Animal Farm''
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In the world
of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our
inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived,
we cannot help concluding that it is in every case the
source of all that is bright and beautiful --in the visible
world giving birth to light and its master, and in the
intellectual world dispensing, immediately and with full
authority, truth and reason --and that whosoever would act
wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form
of Good before his eyes.
-- Plato
BC 427?-347?, Greek
Philosopher
There are two
perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn.
-- Chinese Proverb
Sayings of Chinese Origin
Goodness
speaks in a whisper, evil shouts
-- Tibetan Proverb
Sayings of Tibetan Origin
To conceive
the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to
succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must
be followed.
-- Ernest Renan
1823-1892, French Writer,
Critic, Scholar
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