Good And Evil Quotes - Page 8

• True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection of causes, with a view to determining what is good or bad for us in the present, is rather imaginary than real.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Gratitude, Real, Views

  Baruch Spinoza (2015). “Ethics”, p.361, Baruch Spinoza

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• This is a world of good and evil. Wherever there is good, evil follows, but beyond and behind all these manifestations, all these contradictions, the Vedanta finds out that Unity. It says, "Give up what is evil and give up what is good." What remains then? Behind good and evil stands something which is yours, the real you, beyond every evil, and beyond every good too, and it is that which is manifesting itself as good and bad. Know that first, and then and then alone you will be a true optimist, and not before; for then you will be able to control everything.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving Up, Real, Evil

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.177, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• In this world we find that all happiness is followed by misery as its shadow. Life has its shadow, death. They must go together, because they are not contradictory, not two separate existences, but different manifestations of the same unit, life and death, sorrow and happiness, good and evil.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Two, Life And Death, Evil

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.104, Advaita Ashrama

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• O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me!

  Walt Whitman

  Blood, Evil, Southern

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.408, NYU Press

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• The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods

  Irving Kristol

  Two, Issues, Evil

  Irving Kristol (1983). “Reflections of a neoconservative: looking back, looking ahead”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• Classical tragedy was the war between good and evil. We wanted evil to be defeated and good to be victorious. But the battle in modern tragedy is between good and good. And no matter which side wins, we'll still be heartbroken.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Heartbroken, War, Winning

  "Farhadi Talks Oscar Front-Runner A Separation; Divorce Drama Questions Iran’s Future". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. December 30, 2011.

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• Either the law exists, or it does not.

  Andre Norton

  Law, Doe

  Andre Norton (2015). “The Zero Stone”, p.124, Open Road Media

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• I have known good and evil,  sin and virtue, right and wrong;  I have judged and been judged;  I have passed through birth and death,  Joy and sorrow, heaven and hell;  And in the end I realized  that I AM in everything and everything is in me.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Evil, Joy, Heaven

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• If the race is to be freed from its crippling burden of good and evil it must be psychiatrists who take the original responsibility

  Brock Chisholm

  Family, Responsibility, Race

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• Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Kings, Truth

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 10 Dec. 1964

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• The most important thing in all this world is that I know that I existed in the preexistence as a spirit child of my Heavenly Father; that I am here in mortality as part of his great plan for me in order that I may prove my worthiness to him by constantly making the proper choices between good and evil; and that if I prove myself worthy I will return to his presence.

  Rex D. Pinegar

  Children, Father, Order

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• Power is not happiness.

  William Godwin

  Evil

  William Godwin (1796). “Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness”, p.185

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• I am liberating man from the degrading chimera known as `conscience'.

  Adolf Hitler

  Men, Evil, Chimera

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• The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one.

  Adolf Hitler

  Lying, Evil, Simplicity

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• Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.

  Aesop

  Hands, Tyrants, Evil

  Aesop (1913). “Æsop's fables: an anthology of the fabulists of all countries”, J. M. Dent & Sons, ltd.

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• Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.

  Samuel Johnson

  Evil, Stealing, Consistent

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: with Murphy's essay”, p.17

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• An evil man is a saint of the future. See good in everything. Destroy the evil-finding quality. Develop the good-finding quality. Rise above good and evil.

  Sivananda

  Men, Evil, Quality

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• Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.

  Joseph Joubert

  Evil, Abuse, Foundation

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• Agape means love for another self not because of any lovable qualities which he or she may possess, but purely and entirely because it is a self capable of experiencing happiness and misery and endowed with the power to choose between good and evil. The love of humans is thus more than a feeling, it is a state of the will.

  Obert C. Tanner

  Love, Mean, Self

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• This is a struggle between good and evil and we're the good?

  Howard Dean

  Struggle, Evil

  "Meet the Press' with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. May 22, 2005.

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• In that sense, Obama is America's first postmodern president. If his predecessors tended to see the world in terms of good and evil, Obama sees the world in terms of victims and victimizers - with the United States often in the role of victimizer. In that view, long favored by the academic left that shaped a young Barack Obama, American foreign policy is one long train of abuses, marked by casual aggression and eager imperiousness.

  Stephen F. Hayes

  Views, America, Evil

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• That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.

  Kenneth Scott Latourette

  Men, Command Not, Evil

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• This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Rights, People, Evil

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.104, Penguin

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• World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years.

  Ken Follett

  War, Drama, Years

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• Until we stop clinging to the concept of good and evil, the world will continue to manifest as friendly goddesses and harmful demons.

  Pema Chodron

  Evil, Friendly, World

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.180, Shambhala Publications

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