Best Goodness Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 9

Author:Moliere

“Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.”

Thinking Men Enemy Goodness Wicked Wickedness Bad Man Always Thinking

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“Nothing easier than to confuse busyness with goodness.”

Work Easier Goodness

Author:Mason Cooley

“[The human mind] finds more facility in assenting to the self-existence of an invisible cause possessing infinite power, wisdom, and goodness, than in the self-existence of the universe, visibly destitute of these attributes, and which may be the effect of them.”

Mind Humans May Self Religion Universe Causes Existence Effects Goodness Infinite Invisible Human Mind Attributes Facility Possessing Destitute Infinite Power

Author:James Madison

“Few countries have produced such arrogance and snobbishness as America. Particularly is this true of the American woman of the middle class. She not only considers herself the equal of man, but his superior, especially in her purity, goodness, and morality. Small wonder that the American suffragist claims for her vote the most miraculous powers. In her exalted conceit she does not see how truly enslaved she is, not so much by man, as by her own silly notions and traditions. Suffrage can not ameliorate that sad fact; it can only accentuate it, as indeed it does.”

Source: Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926

“When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands the unfitness of the means. The ulterior motives with which youabsorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.... Evil is whatever distracts. Evil knows of the Good, but Good does not know of Evil. Knowledge of oneself is something only Evil has. One means that Evil has is the dialogue.... One cannot pay Evil in installments--and one always keeps on trying to.”

Knows Trying Mean Doe Evil Pay Demand Goodness Oneself Accepted Dialogue Motive Seduction Ulterior Motive

Author:Franz Kafka

“The Diabolical sometimes assumes the aspect of the Good, or even embodies itself completely in its form. If this remains concealedfrom me, I am of course defeated, for this Good is more tempting than the genuine Good.”

Ifs Sometimes Form Courses Goodness Aspect Remains Assuming Genuine Defeated Seduction Tempting Diabolical

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“The observer of the soul cannot penetrate into the soul, but there doubtless is a margin where he comes into contact with it. Recognition of this contact is the fact that even the soul does not know of itself. Hence it must remain unknown. That would be sad only if there were anything apart from the soul, but there is nothing else.”

Ifs Knows Doe Soul Facts Would Be Goodness Contact Recognition Seduction Observers Penetrate Margins

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“There are few instances of the exercise of particular virtues which seem harder to attain to, or which appear more amiable and engaging in themselves, than those of moderation and the forgiveness of injuries.”

Seems Virtue Particular Exercise Goodness Forgiveness Harder Instance Injury Moderation Engaging Amiable

Book:The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself

Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself

“Surely, 'tis one step towards acting well, to think worthily of our nature; and as in common life, the way to make a man honest, is, to suppose him soso here, to set some value upon ourselves, enables us to support the characterof generosity and virtue.”

Thinking Men Way Wells Character Values Common Acting Steps Support Virtue Honest Goodness Charity Generosity Common Life

Author:Laurence Sterne

“Injuries come only from the heart.”

Heart Goodness Injury Meanness

Book:The Works of Laurence Sterne ...

Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne ...

“Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.”

Goodness Companion Good Sense Good Nature

Author:William Wycherley

“An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.”

Ifs Action Goodness Consequence Be Good Agents Motive

Author:Immanuel Kant

“A good man's life is all of a piece.”

Men Life Is Pieces Goodness Good Man

Book:Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney

Source: Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney

“A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.”

Men Religion Religious Honor Goodness Profession Good Man

Author:Samuel Richardson

“A good man will extend his munificence to the industrious poor of all persuasions reduced by age, infirmity, or accident; to thosewho labour under incurable maladies; and to the youth of either sex, who are capable of beginning the world with advantage, but have not the means.”

Men World Mean Age Sex Poor Youth Goodness Capable Advantage Charity Accidents Labour Good Man Persuasion Infirmity Industrious Malady

Author:Samuel Richardson

“A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.”

Men Causes Justice Goodness Patriotism Good Man Examining

Book:A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...

Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...

“We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.”

Goodness Be Good Contrary Temptation Provocation

Author:Samuel Richardson

“It's not greed and ambition that makes wars--it's goodness. Wars are always fought for the best of reasons, for liberation or manifest destiny, always against tyranny and always in the best interests of humanity. So far this war, we've managed to butcher some 10,000,000 people in the interest of humanity. The next war, it seems we'll have to destroy all of man in order to preserve his damn dignity.”