G.E. Moore

Quotes

• “If indeed good were a feeling....then it would exist in time. But that is why to call it so is to commit the naturalisti...”
• “We must not, therefore, be frightened by the assertion that a thing is natural into the admission that it is good; good ...”
• “Egoism holds, therefore, is that each man's happiness is the sole good--that a number of different things are each of th...”
• “Was the excellence of Socrates or of Shakespeare normal? Was it not rather abnormal, extraordinary? It is, I think, obvi...”
• “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...”
• “...if good is defined as something else, it is then impossible either to prove that any other definition is wrong or eve...”
• “....it seems to me that a pleasurable Contemplation of Beauty has certainly an immeasurably greater value than mere Cons...”
• “Good, then, is indefinable....”