Good Quotes

Happiness is the highest good

Love is of something, and that which love desires is not that which love is or has; for no man desires that which he is or has. And love is of the beautiful, and therefore has not the beautiful. And the beautiful is the good, and therefore, in wanting and desiring the beautiful, love also wants and desires the good.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, 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.

Knowledge is our ultimate good.

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.

Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

Wonder is the beginning of the desire to know the beautiful and the good.

The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end.

Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence

States strong enough to do good are but few.Their number would seem limited to three.

The state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.

O Voltaire! O humanity! O idiocy! There is something ticklish in "the truth," and in the SEARCH for the truth; and if man goes about it too humanely-"il ne cherche le vrai que pour faire le bien"-I wager he finds nothing!

The good man is he for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely good are good; it is also plain that his use of these goods must be virtuous and in the absolute sense good.

It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

It is through good education that all the good in the world arises.

Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going because they were holding on to something.... That there's some good in the world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.

Nature turns all malfaisance to good.

In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.

We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.

There can be no greater good than the quest for peace, and no finer purpose than the preservation of freedom.

Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.

The good is the beautiful.

The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.

The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens.

The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler

To seek the highest good is to live well.

He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

What is the highest good in all matters of action? To the name, there is almost complete agreement; for uneducated and educated alike call it happiness, and make happiness identical with the good life and successful living. They disagree, however, about the meaning of happiness.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.

Every soul pursues the good and does whatever it does for its sake.

Find the good. Seek the Unity. Ignore the divisions among us.

To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it

Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to the degree of his intellect, the particular standard of his reasonableness.