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«It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.»
Author: Dorothy Canfield Fisher
| About:
Dreams,
Effort,
Evil,
Food,
Fulfilment,
Goodness,
Health,
Hunger,
Illness,
Rest,
Wishes
| Keywords:
exertion, health food, sickness, to be filled
«In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive.»
Author: William Bernbach
| About:
Evil
| Keywords:
displace, drive out, energetic, passive, real world
«Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?Then he is not omnipotent.Is he able, but not willing?Then he is malevolent.Is he both able and willing?Then whence cometh evil?Is he neither able nor willing?Then why call him God?»
«It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.»
«It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Evil,
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
according, arranges, free spirit, free state, lays, presuppose, presupposes, scope, spirits, wickedness
«It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.»
«It is good to maintain and cherish life; it is evil to destroy and to cheek life»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Evil
| Keywords:
cheek
«In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Evil
| Keywords:
announces, announcing, battling, conceals, excess, half-truth, moderate, moderated, moderating, presenting, The Other Half, wrath
«Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.»
«It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die»
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