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G.E. Moore quotes: ...fiction is as useful as truth, for giving us matter, upon which to exercise the judgment of value.

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

G.E. Moore quotes: ....it seems to me that a pleasurable Contemplation of Beauty has certainly an immeasurably greater value than mere Consciousness of Pleasure.

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

G.E. Moore quotes: Moral conduct,or duty,is defined as the obligation to select that action which will achieve more good than any alternative action....

Moral conduct,or duty,is defined as the obligation to select that action which will achieve more good than any alternative action....

G.E. Moore quotes: Good, then, is indefinable....

Good, then, is indefinable....

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

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

G.E. Moore quotes: ...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.

...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.