Famous GE Moore Quotes

  • Good, then, is indefinable…. – GE Moore

    Good, then, is indefinable….– GE Moore

  • For it is the business of Ethics, I must insist, not only to obtain true results, but also to find valid reasons for them. – GE Moore

    For it is the business of Ethics, I must insist, not only to obtain true results, but also to find valid reasons for them.– GE Moore

  • …if good is defined as something else, it is then impossible either to prove that any other definition is wrong or even to deny such definition. – GE Moore

    …if good is defined as something else, it is then impossible either to prove that any other definition is wrong or even to deny such definition.– GE Moore

  • …fiction is as useful as truth, for giving us matter, upon which to exercise the judgment of value. – GE Moore

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

  • ….it seems to me that a pleasurable Contemplation of Beauty has certainly an immeasurably greater value than mere Consciousness of Pleasure. – GE Moore

    ….it seems to me that a pleasurable Contemplation of Beauty has certainly an immeasurably greater value than mere Consciousness of Pleasure.– GE Moore