Good And Evil Quotes - Page 25

• It must be remembered that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind; good and evil are local expedients - or their lack - and not in any sense cosmic truths or laws.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Real, Law, Evil

  "Collected Essays, Volume 5: Philosophy" edited by S. T. Joshi, (p. 70), 2006.

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• Such is life, here today, gone tomorrow! Nothing goes with one, except one's merit and demerit; good and evil deeds follow one even after death.

  Sarada Devi

  Evil, Today, Merit

  Sarada Devi (1963). “At Holy Mother's Feet: Teachings of Shri Sarada Devi”

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• Everything that makes diversity of kinds, of species, differences, properties... everything that consists in generation, decay, alteration and change is not an entity, but a condition and circumstance of entity and being, which is one, infinite, immobile, subject, matter, life, death, truth, lies, good and evil.

  Giordano Bruno

  Lying, Differences, Evil

  "Cause, Principle, and Unity". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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• In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying them all on the same plane, without any discrimination of value, as though good and evil were external to them, as though the effort toward the good could be absent at any moment from the thought of any man.

  Simone Weil

  Men, Evil, Effort

  "On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God". Book by Simone Weil, Translated by R. Rees, "The responsibility of writers," p. 168, 1968.

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• The State is competent to assign duties and draw the line between good and evil only in its immediate sphere. Beyond the limits of things necessary for its well-being, it can only give indirect help to fight the battle of life by promoting the influences which prevail against temptation--religion, education, and the distribution of wealth.

  Lord Acton

  Fighting, Evil, Giving

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.30, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Fathers, I do not practice. I'm not religious in life, but when I perform "The Creation of the World" and when my soul is touched by the confrontation of "Good and Evil," then God enters in me.

  Marcel Marceau

  Religious, Father, Practice

  The Lantern Interview, April 5, 2001.

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• No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist.

  Julian Jaynes

  Evil, Puppets, Moral

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.285, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And I believe that if 100 million people became embodiments of peace, the world would transform, because consciousness is a collective phenomenon. And what we see as good and evil is the balance between forces.

  Deepak Chopra

  Believe, People, Evil

  "Deepak Chopra Traces Jesus' Untold Story". "The Hannity & Colmes Show", www.foxnews.com. November 12, 2008.

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• The Female Western is the battle between the good and evil methods of getting the men who perform best.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Evil, Battle

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• Every human being has a fascinating existence, with a big cast of good and evil characters in each. And almost always, somewhere along the way, magic.

  Lucinda Riley

  Character, Evil, Magic

  Lucinda Riley (2012). “The Girl on the Cliff: A Novel”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Angels are happier than men and devils, because they are not always prying after good and evil in one another, and eating the tree of knowledge for Satan's gratification.

  William Blake

  Angel, Men, Evil

  William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?

  John Milton

  Men, Evil, States

  1644 Areopagitica: a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing.

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• Good and evil and beauty and ugliness are only ornamental fruits of perspective, whose sole value lies in their linkage to what chance made our fathers think and feel, and whose finer details are different for every race and culture.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Father, Lying, Thinking

  H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories”, p.139, H. P. Lovecraft

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• The acceptance of ambiguity implies more than the commonplace understanding that some good things and some bad things happen to us. It means that we know that good and evil are inextricably intermixed in human affairs; that they contain, and sometimes embrace, their opposites; that success may involve failure of a different kind, and failure may be a kind of triumph.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Failure, Mean, Acceptance

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered. The most we can do is try to tilt the equilibrium toward the good.

  Eric Hoffer

  Growing Up, Evil, Trying

  "Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer. Section 26, 1973.

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• When anything is in the presence of evil, but is not as yet evil, the presence of good arouses the desire of good in that thing; but the presence of evil, which makes a thing evil, takes away the desire and friendship of the good; for that which was once both good and evil has now become evil only, and the good has no friendship with evil.

  Plato

  Evil, Desire

  Plato (2015). “Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias”, p.307, e-artnow

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• The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule , between good and evil but between two evils. You can let the Nazis rule the world : that is evil; or you can overthrow them by war , which is also evil. There is no other choice before you, and whichever you choose you will not come out with clean hands.

  George Orwell

  War, Hands, Two

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.175, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  War, Winning, Law

  Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “Third Class in Indian Railways”, p.48, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The daimonic refers to the power of nature rather than the superego, and is beyond good and evil. Nor is it man's 'recall to himself' as Heidegger and later Fromm have argued, for its source lies in those realms where the self is rooted in natural forces which go beyond the self and are felt as the grasp of fate upon us. The daimonic arises from the ground of being rather than the self as such.

  Rollo May

  Lying, Fate, Men

  Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”

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• I'm a pretty solid Christian. But even as an altar boy, I was always asking the bigger questions--you know: if God is, in fact, good, what is all this death I see? And if God is gentle, what is all this suffering I see? I've found some of the answers in Eastern religion. It explained my Christianity to me. Good and evil are the same thing. You can't have one without the other. It's the balance, it's the temperance of things.

  Tim Allen

  Christian, Boys, Evil

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• When the ghost comes round at midnight Well you both can have some fun He can drive you mad, he can make you sad He can keep you from the sun When they take him down, he'll be both safe and sound And the hand does fit the glove And no matter what they tell you, There's good and evil in everyone.

  Van Morrison

  Fun, Hands, Safe And Sound

  Song: Who Was That Masked Man, Album: Veedon Fleece

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