“ It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will. Immanuel Kant
“ One’s love for his country is a very sacred emotion that is intertwined with their sense of moral obligation and is an essential part of one’s identity. Aysha Taryam
“ Was the excellence of Socrates or of Shakespeare normal? Was it not rather abnormal, extraordinary? It is, I think, obvious in the first place, that not all that is good is normal; that, on the contra… G.E. Moore
“ We must not, therefore, be frightened by the assertion that a thing is natural into the admission that it is good; good does not, by definition, mean anything that is natural; and it is therefore alwa… G.E. Moore
“ For it is the business of Ethics, I must insist, not only to obtain true results, but also to find valid reasons for them. G.E. Moore
“ ...if good is defined as something else, it is then impossible either to prove that any other definition is wrong or even to deny such definition. G.E. Moore
“ If i am asked 'what is good? my answer is that good is good, and that is the end of the matter. Or if I am asked 'How is good to be defined?' my answer is that it cannot be defined, and that is all I… G.E. Moore
“ Egoism holds, therefore, is that each man's happiness is the sole good--that a number of different things are each of them the only good thing there is--an absolute contradiction! No more complete and… G.E. Moore
“ I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go . John Stuart Mill
“ ...fiction is as useful as truth, for giving us matter, upon which to exercise the judgment of value. G.E. Moore
“ ....it seems to me that a pleasurable Contemplation of Beauty has certainly an immeasurably greater value than mere Consciousness of Pleasure. G.E. Moore
“ The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to p… John Stuart Mill