Primo Levi Quotes

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

I boil down people to 'good heart' or 'bad heart' - meaning they're basically good or basically not.

He who's never loved cannot be good.

Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . . So that, after all, the real aristocracy must be that of goodness where the intellect is directed by the heart.

A heart set on love will do no wrong.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.

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

No single answer can hold the truth of a good heart.

A good heart 'is worth gold.

Good human qualities-honesty, sincerity, a good heart-cannot be bought with money, nor can they be produced my machines, but only by the mind itself. We can call this the inner light, or God's blessing, or human qualitity. This is the essence of mankind.

And what about all the good I have in my heart - does it mean anything?

From yon blue heavens above us bent The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.

The point is to be good-to be sensitive and sincere.

If a man sets his heart on benevolence he will be free from evil.

Kindness is virtue itself.

Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?

If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.

It is my fundamental conviction that compassion - the natural capacity of the human heart to feel concern for and connection with another human being - constitutes a basic aspect of our nature shared by all human beings, as well as being the foundation of our happiness. All ethical teachings, whether religious or nonreligious, aim to nurture this innate and precious quality, to develop it and to perfect it.

You can't help it but you were born without a heart. At least you tried to believe what the people with hearts believed — so you were a good man just the same.

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.

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

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

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