Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by George Edward Moore

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English philosopher George Edward Moore.
Last updated on December 24, 2024.
George Edward Moore

George Edward Moore was an English philosopher, who with Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein and earlier Gottlob Frege was among the founders of analytic philosophy. He and Russell led the turn from idealism in British philosophy and became known for advocating common-sense concepts and contributing to ethics, epistemology and metaphysics. He was said to have an "exceptional personality and moral character". Ray Monk later dubbed him "the most revered philosopher of his era". As Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, he influenced but abstained from the Bloomsbury Group. He edited the journal Mind. He was a member of the Cambridge Apostles from 1894 to 1901, a fellow of the British Academy from 1918, and chaired the Cambridge University Moral Sciences Club in 1912–1944. As a humanist, he presided over the British Ethical Union in 1935–1936.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.
All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.
The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.
Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, and love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.
I am free in performing an action if I could have done otherwise if I had chosen to. — © George Edward Moore
I am free in performing an action if I could have done otherwise if I had chosen to.
Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
But from the hoop's bewitching round, Her very shoe has power to wound.
Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead louers, As if her merit lessen'd yours? — © George Edward Moore
Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead louers, As if her merit lessen'd yours?
I'll tell thee what it says; it calls me villain, a treacherous husband, a cruel father, a false brother; one lost to nature and her charities; or to say all in one short word, it calls me - Gamester.
Now, in my opinion, a woman has no business with Power-Power admits no equal, and dismisses friendship for flattery. Besides, it keeps the men at a distance, and that is not always what we wish.
If I am asked 'what is good?' my answer is that good is good, and that is the end of the matter.
Honesty needs no pains to set itself off.
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