Thomas Huxley Quotes

Virtue is its own reward. We only invented concepts like heaven and hell to describe how we feel. We don't feel good doing bad and it's nice to help someone.

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.

It's so much easier to do good than to be good.

Each of us has more opportunities to do good and to be good than we ever use.

While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

I just want to be as good a person as I can be.

To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.

Every day I live by only one rule, be a good guy.

If virtue were its own reward, it would no longer be a human quality, but supernatural.

She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.

Only those few people who practice it believe in goodness.

The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.

To be good and to do good-that is the whole of religion.

Good deeds are many, but good lives are few.

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

To do no evil is good, to intend none better.

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

As long as I'm a good person and I do things from the heart, that's all that matters.

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.