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The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.

— William Ames

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

— John Stuart Mill

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

— Man Ray

Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness makes goodness much more serviceable.

— Matthew Henry

The universe is so unique and perfect that it could not have originated by chance but was divined by flawless, creative design.

— Fritz Zwicky

I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.

— Vikram Seth

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

— Saul Bellow

A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity.

— Stephen Chow

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

— Albert Camus

In the biblical worldview, the purpose of all creation is to benefit man. This anthropocentric view of nature, and indeed of the whole universe, is completely at odds with the current secular idealization of nature. This secular view posits that nature has its own intrinsic meaning and purpose, independent of man.

— Dennis Prager

✗Opposing Perspectives

A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.

— Federico Fellini