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• Marriage is not comfortable and harmonious. Rather it is a place of individuation where a person rubs up against oneself and against the partner, bumps up against the person in love and in rejection, and in this fashion learns to know oneself, the world, good and evil, the heights and the depths.

  Adolph Guggenbuhl-Craig

  Love, Fashion, Evil

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• God values deeds according to their intentions. For it is said, "The Lord grant unto you according to your heart" (Ps. 19:5) ... Therefore, whoever wants to do something but can't is considered as having done it by God, who sees the intentions of our hearts. This applies to both good and evil deeds alike.

  Marcus Eremita

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• In reality, good and evil do not exist, because Divine Providence created nothing that is bad and disharmonious; this is only a human concept. From the hermetic point of view, one type of being has to bring forth positive influences, whereas another type has to bring forth negative influences. In an astral respect these beings are the tools of the effects on our physical world. They are also the cause of all effects in the astral body of every human being, whether they are initiated or not.

  Franz Bardon

  Reality, Views, Evil

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• Both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporary suffering, 'No future bliss can make up for it,' not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. And of some sinful pleasure they say 'Let me but have this and I'll take the consequences': little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pleasure of the sin.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Dream, Religious

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• The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is mere mental sport to the disputants, who are captives that play with their chains.

  Voltaire

  Sports, Reality, Play

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4171, Delphi Classics

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• Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature

  John Locke

  Philosophical, Punishment, Evil

  Some Thoughts Concerning Education sec. 54 (1693)

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• Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light.

  Joseph Campbell

  Light, Evil, Results

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• Yin and yang, male and female, strong and weak, rigid and tender, heaven and earth, light and darkness, thunder and lightning, cold and warmth, good and evil...the interplay of opposite principles constitutes the universe.

  Confucius

  Strong, Light, Opposites

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• The border between good and evil is terribly fuzzy.

  Milan Kundera

  Evil, Borders, Fuzzy

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• Whereas the comic confronts simply logical contradictions, the tragic confronts a moral predicament. Not minor matters of true andfalse but crucial questions of right and wrong, good and evil face the tragic character in a tragic situation.

  Marie Taylor Collins Swabey

  Character, Evil, Tragedy

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• Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.

  Laozi

  Love, Giving Up, People

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• The radical tension between good and evil, as man sees it and feels it, does not have the last word about the meaning of life and the nature of existence. There is a spirit in man and in
  the world working always against the thing that destroys and lays waste.

  Howard Thurman

  Men, Evil, World

  Howard Thurman (2014). “A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religious Experience and Public Life”, p.106, Beacon Press

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• Good and evil are merely opposite sides of a coin. Get tossed in the air enough, it's easy to come down on the wrong side.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Air, Opposites, Evil

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.797, Dell

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• We want to believe in the essential, unchanging goodness of people, in their power to resist external pressures, in their rational appraisal and then rejection of situational temptations. We invest human nature with God-like qualities, with moral and rational faculties that make us both just and wise. We simplify the complexity of human experience by erecting a seemingly impermeable boundary between Good and Evil.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Wise, Believe, People

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• The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will.

  Epictetus

  Essence, Evil, Disposition

  Epictetus (1807). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, Preserved by Arrian ; The Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.133

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• People know the difference between good and evil in their hearts-if they search them. Religions twist good and evil. Their differences are the kind that need to be taught because they aren't natural.

  Julianna Baggott

  Heart, Differences, People

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• If there is no God, the labels 'good' and 'evil' are merely opinions. They are substitutes for 'I like it' and 'I don't like it.' They are not objective realities.

  Dennis Prager

  Reality, Evil, Labels

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• The greatest travelers have not gone beyond the limits of their own world; they have trodden the paths of their own souls, of good and evil, of morality and redemption.

  Carlo Levi

  Evil, Soul, World

  Carlo Levi (2008). “Fear of Freedom: With the Essay, "Fear of Painting"”, p.30, Columbia University Press

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• Virtue and vice suppose the freedom to choose between good and evil; but what can be the morals of a woman who is not even in possession of herself, who has nothing of her own, and who all her life has been trained to extricate herself from the arbitrary by ruse, from constraint by using her charms?... As long as she is subject to man's yoke or to prejudice, as long as she receives no professional education, as long as she is deprived of her civil rights, there can be no moral law for her!

  Flora Tristan

  Men, Rights, Law

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• There's always the question of what is good and evil and the gray area in between where that most people live. In everyday life, things aren't black or white, but rather there's a lot of coping and really tough decision making.

  Laura San Giacomo

  White, People, Evil

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• Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  God, Father, Evil

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• This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to resolve themselves to spoiling existence for him, and thus to being his misfortune; out of pity, they would have to--become evil!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Evil, Redemption, Morality

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• If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: "Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!" And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Law, Tyrants, Evil

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• The problem of good and evil is not the problem of good and evil, but only the problem of evil. In opposition to good there are evil characters, but there are no good characters in opposition to evil. Evil is arguable, but good is not. Therefore the Devil always wins the argument.

  Laura Riding

  Character, Winning, Evil

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• Satan is attacking the great institutions of America. This is a spiritual war. I believe in good and evil.

  Rick Santorum

  Spiritual, War, Believe

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