Good Quotes - Page 3

The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them.
It’s for their own good.

Many years ago someone told me something that I flatly refused to accept. And I still don't accept it now, despite all the times I've seen it proved right.
"The common good and the individual good rarely coincide..."
Sure, I know, it's true.
But some truths are probably worse than lies.

In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.

The truth is not good or bad, it is just the truth.

Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes

The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has...

Atât de mare e puterea adevărului care, precum binele, se răspândește de la sine.

See yourself as you really are.
Accept the good and the bad.
Only then can you truly share yourself with another.

Everything is fine, nobody is happy...

wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes.

Nobody can tell what is right and what is wrong; what is righteous and what is evil. Even if there is a god and I had his teachings right before me, I would think it through and decide if that was right or wrong myself.

Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.

We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.

Nothing and no one is perfect. It just takes a good eye to find those hidden imperfections.

yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful things
and your tongue were not concocting some evil to say
shame would not hold down your eyes
but rather you would speak about what is just

If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing what’s right.

Stay upbeat and keep your head held high. There is no end to the power of positive thinking. I AM looking forward to all the wealth, success, and abundance speeding my way!

..it happens in all human affairs that we never seek to escape one mischief without falling into another. Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage, and in accepting a less evil as a good.