Quotes by : G.E. Moore

Was the excellence of Socrates or of Shakespeare normal? Was it not rather abnormal, extraordinary? It....

For it is the business of Ethics, I must insist, not only to obtain true results, but also to find valid....

We must not, therefore, be frightened by the assertion that a thing is natural into the admission that....

...if good is defined as something else, it is then impossible either to prove that any other definition....

If i am asked 'what is good? my answer is that good is good, and that is the end of the matter. Or if....

....it seems to me that a pleasurable Contemplation of Beauty has certainly an immeasurably greater value....

Good, then, is indefinable....

...fiction is as useful as truth, for giving us matter, upon which to exercise the judgment of value.....

Egoism holds, therefore, is that each man's happiness is the sole good--that a number of different things....

If indeed good were a feeling....then it would exist in time. But that is why to call it so is to commit....