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Good describes a situation in comparison with its opposite. Not only that, but what is good or bad also depends on context, which itself is changeable.
A definition is the start of an argument, not the end of one.
is not to be expected that there should be agreement about the definition of any thing, until there is agreement about the thing itself.
Good is a noun rather than an adjective.
... Language shows a tendency for the words "good" and "stupid" to come [close] together... a hint of contempt... within these term[s]... [dictating that] the good man must always be unthreatening.
Very' is such a strong word...
Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined.
To define something is to subordinate it to a tangle of intellectual relationships. And when you do that you destroy real understanding.
Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.
It's not important to be defined, it's only important to use your time well.
Great is a great one whose great ones are greatGreat-- John Stein
Definition of Good and Evil: Good is what you like. Evil is what you don't like.
Good is latent in every living thing and simply needs to be called into active expression through the gracious application of respect, sympathetic understanding, gentleness and love.
Meaning, however, is no great matter.
Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
At the heart of anything good there should be a kernel of something undefinable, and if you can define it, or claim to be able to define it, then, in a sense, you've missed the point.
So the good has been well explained as that at which all things aim.
To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.
To be is to be perceived
Good's a pretty funny word. Never seems to have the same meaning to any two people" -T. Walker
To define a thing is to see it clearly, to see it as distinct from other things and at the same time to see its exact relationship with other things: for a thing is its relations and activities.
Definitions ... are never really needed, and rarely of any use
You are doing well if you are not weary in well doing
I know that it means very
Indeed, the power of words has gone to man's head in more than one way. To define has come to mean almost the same thing as to understand.
You don't get to Define me, only I can Define me, all I wish from you is to recognize my Definition.
Doing well is a conservative idea; meaning well is a liberal idea
Notwithstanding how good you are, you shall be perceived as bad by the masses when you take the extraordinary steps that lead to distinctiveness which the masses may regard as bad
Good is not a thing you are. It is a thing you do.
[T]o a limited being its limited understanding is not felt to be a limitation; on the contrary, it is perfectly happy and contented with this understanding[.]
Odd that we think definitions are definitive.
Too much is how I love you, but too well is how I know you.Love-- Ani Difranco
Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess.
The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.
In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it's better than bad, though why it's better to be good than bad depends on how you define good, and on and on.
Good. Show me a man who thinks that he knows what 'good' is, and I will probably be able to show you a horror of a person. Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.
Dangerously well' - what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling 'too well
A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
A life is well lived when you are content with your condition and gracious for your possessions.
Goodness is a perpetual quantity, all penetrating, all searching, impartial, noble, a comfort in distress, a refuge to the weak, a tower and a defense to all who wish to be right and to do right.
Others' Notions may make you 'Good' but your own notions will make you "Great.
In the present moment, you are beyond all definition. This means that you are no longer defined by the pain and limitations of the past. You are no longer defined by your judgments, opinions or beliefs nor are you defined by the judgment, opinions or beliefs of others.
I don't want to be easily defined.
Ah, yes. Fine. A lovely sounding word that means absolutely nothing.
Good is not a thing you are. It's a thing you do.
Everything is done with a goal, and that goal is "good".
Well begun is not only half done, but often fully cooked.
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.
Do you mean good as in ethical or good as in capable, Dairy?
We can't define anything precisely. If we attempt to, we get into the paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers ... one saying to the other: you don't know what you are talking about! The second one says: what do you mean by talking? What do you mean by you? What do you mean by know?
Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.
I never wish to be easily defined.
My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.
Well-adjusted means you can make the same mistakes over and over again, and keep smiling.
What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?
Good sense is the most evenly distributed thing in the world; for everyone believes himself to be so well provided with it that even those who are the hardest to please in every other way do not usually want more of it than they already have.
An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.
For to define is to isolate, to separate some complex of forms from the stream of life and say, "This is I." When man can name and define himself, he feels that he has an identity. Thus he begins to feel, like the word, separate and static, as over against the real, fluid world of nature.
To define yourself is to limit yourself. Without labels you remain the infinite being.
Each of us is the best we can be when we are fully present, focused yet relaxed, curious yet non-judgmental, committed yet flexible.
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.
good alone
Is good without a name, vileness is so
Goodness means the highest degree of popularity.
Well being is a condition one has to groom, a condition one has to become aquainted with in order to seek it
PAROLLES Just, you say well; so would I have said.
The definition of being good is being able to make it look easy.
Fine ... a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.
Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out of what you know to be true.
Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.
I do not think I'm easy to define. I have a wandering mind. And I'm not anything that you think I am.
We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.Good-- Isaac Barrow
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
Goodness Is oneness-love In perfect action.
Definitions, her grandmother once said, had to be like a fat man's belt - big enough to cover the subject but elastic enough to allow for change.
The Sunborn
Sometimes what seems to be a difference in opinions is in fact just a difference in definitions.
The good man is he for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely good are good; it is also plain that his use of these goods must be virtuous and in the absolute sense good.
If a thing be really good, it can be shown to be such.
We may have an excellent ear for music, without being able to perform in any kind; we may judge well of poetry, without being poets, or possessing the least of a poetic vein; but we can have no tolerable notion of goodness without being tolerably good.
I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them.
Well-being is how I feel in my skin, not about how other people are looking at me and what they see ... it's what I feel like.
Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
How to know, oh how to know! All is relative ease and facility in orthodoxy, yet how can it be denied that good is in itself undeniable? Absolutes are the most uncertain of all formulations, while the uncertainties are the most real ...
I don't believe there is any such definition, there is no such thing as evil, only moral judgments based on what society believes to be wrong behavior.
Every evil screams only one message: 'I am good.'
Good is not good, where better is expected
Definitions have their uses in much the same way that road signs make it easy to travel: they point out the directions. But you don't get where you're going when you just stand underneath some sign, waiting for it to tell you what to do.
A wellborn soul is guided by only one principle in the world: always do good to others and never harm
This is the antonym of excellent.
I never wish to be easily defined. I'd rather float over other people's minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
is a small word with a big reach. There
If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much
Doing well is a result of doing good.
There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
If your idea of good opposes something else, you can be sure that [it] is not absolute or certain.
The goal wasn't to be good. It was to be just good enough.
We know the meaning so long as no one asks us to define it.
A definition is death. A definition is the answer to which you must look up the question in the back of your book.
Good sense alone is a sedate and quiescent quality, which manages its possessions well, but does not increase them; it collects few materials for its own operations, and preserves safety, but never gains supremacy.
Meaning that is self-made is in the last analysis no meaning. Meaning, that is, the ground on which our existence as a totality can stand and live, cannot be made but only received.