Maria Montessori Quotes

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

The good is the beautiful.

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

They constantly try to escape From the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect That no one will need to be good.

The act of feeling what you believe other people feel is morally corosive.... If we want to be good and caring people, if we want to make the world a better place, then we are better off withouit empathy.

It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.

The good is always beautiful, the beautiful is good!

The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.

So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.

We needs must love the highest when we see it.

How near to good is what is fair!

Goodness has no opposite. Most of us consider goodness as the opposite of the bad or evil and so throughout history in any culture goodness has been considered the other face of that which is brutal. So man has always struggled against evil in order to be good; but goodness can never come into being if there is any form of violence or struggle.

Perfect goodness can never debate about the end to be attained, and perfect wisdom cannot debate about the means most suited to achieve it.

Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and goodness, not unlimited acquisition.

I'm pro-life, in the sense that chaos seems like life to me and order seems like death.

"From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."

I was definitely looking for a reason to impose rules in the story during the writing process... a set of reasons that you could graph for why it's not chaos and anarchy - for why it has to be order, and why you need architects and an architectural brain to create the world of the dream for the subject to enter.

Cage is much more disciplined. He made chance a method and used it in constructive ways; I never did that. Everything here is a little more chaotic.

I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.