Rem Koolhaas Quotes

Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

What is right is not derived from the rule, but the rule arises from our knowledge of what is right

And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil. And he answered : You are good in countless ways , and you are not evil when you are not good .

We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.

I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.' Rose didn't answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods--Good and Evil.

Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.

[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.

What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none.

Donald Trump believes in a right and a wrong.

It is better to will the good than to know the truth.

And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good— Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.

Whatsoever is the object of any man's Appetite or Desire; that is it which he for his part calleth Good: and the object of his Hate and Aversion, evil.

Morality is truth in full bloom.

If you look after goodness and truth, beauty will take care of itself.

An ethic isn't a fact you can look up. It's a way of thinking.

When goodness is lost, it is replaced by morality.

It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.

Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant!

He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

Some authors regard morality in the same light as we regard modern architecture. Convenience is the first thing to be looked for.

It is good insofar as it is not evil.

What is morality, she asked. Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.