A Quote by Josephine Hart
We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists.
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Now the goodness that we have to consider is clearly human goodness, since the good or happiness which we set out to seek was human good and human happiness. But human goodness means in our view excellence of soul, not excellence of body.
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
Whoever increases the sum of human joy, is a worshiper. He who adds to the sum of human misery, is a blasphemer.
It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong.
Intuitive cognition of a thing is cognition that enables us to know whether the thing exists or does not exist, in such a way that, if the thing exists, then the intellect immediately judges that it exists and evidently knows that it exists, unless the judgment happens to be impeded through the imperfection of this cognition.
As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit.
The worst form of badness is human goodness when human goodness becomes a substitute for the new birth.
Goodness knows she is too fierce for you Goodness knows she has eyes for a lord Goodness knows she yet will prove untrue Her cheek's blush is as false as her word
An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.
Badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. Evil is a parasite, not an original thing.
God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.
God exists because arithmetic is consistent - the Devil exists because we can't prove it!
One can study what exists and how consciousness functions; but one cannot analyze (or “prove”) existence as such, or consciousness as such. These are irreducible primaries. (An attempt to “prove” them is self-contradict ory: it is an attempt to “prove” existence by means of nonexistence, and consciousness by means of unconsciousness .)
The sum of all known value and respect, I add up in you, whoever you are.
If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.
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