Goodness Quote by Thomas Mann

“Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a 'happy' one?”

Thomas Mann

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Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.

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“Solitude favors the original, the daringly and otherworldly beautiful, the poem. But it also favors the wrongful, the extreme, the absurd, and the forbidden.”

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“But what would be our readers’ reaction if we simply refused to get to the bottom of that question?”

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What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.

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“O, čarobna organsko lepoto, koja se ne sastojiš ni iz uljane boje ni iz kamena, već iz materije žive i raspadljive, pune grozničave tajne…

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Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

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“I hope that you have nothing against malice, my good engineer. In my eyes it is the brightest sword that reason has against the…

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“...only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.”

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“The days began to fly now, and yet each one of them was stretched by renewed expectations and swollen with silent, private experiences. Yes,…

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“The average man thinks that a little falseness goes with beauty.”

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“A stimulus is a stimulus. The body doesn't give a damn about the meaning of the stimulus. Whether minnows or communion, the sebaceous glands…

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It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting…

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This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

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The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden of Eden…

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Love reacts with goodness towards those who ill-treat it.

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For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies.

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One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud; And sure, the reverent eye must see A purpose in…

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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

Hanif Kureishi

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the path of goodness had a name it is called Love in it we find the key to every hope and has it's root…

Pope John Paul II

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The family remains the basic unit of society and the first school in which children learn the human, spiritual and moral values which enable…

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To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

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The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because they don't.…

Wendell Berry

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The future teachers I try to recruit are those show have refused to let themselves be neutered in this way, either in their private…

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A good man therefore is a standing lesson to us all.

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