good quotes

As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.

There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

We’re all caught up in circumstances, and we’re all good and evil. When you’re really hungry, for instance, you’ll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing – well, maybe that’s too strong – but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what’s evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We’re less sure about what is good. There’s sort of good, good enough, could be better – but absolute good is a little harder to define.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

The truth is that the vast majority of Americans are good, fair, and just, and they want their country to reflect those ideals.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

Science, as everyone knows, is responsible, moderate, unsentimental, and otherwise good.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.