Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Evil Quotes

Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering-from positive evil.

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Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Evil Quotes

Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish,--and that makes the offensiveness of the class. They are partial; they are notequal to the work they pretend. They lose their way; in the assault on the kingdom of darkness, they expend all their energy on some accidental evil, and lose their sanity and power of benefit.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Class Quotes , Evil Quotes

The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents one of the most serious obstacles to the acquisition of correct information by throwing in the reader's way piles of lumber in which he must painfully grope for the scraps of useful matter, peradventure interspersed.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Book Quotes , Evil Quotes

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

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

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Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Men Quotes , Evil Quotes

The devil was the first democrat

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Evil Quotes , Devil Quotes

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!

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Evil Quotes , Redemption Quotes

Nonviolent non-co-operation with evil means co-operation with all that is good.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Mean Quotes , Evil Quotes

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Evil Quotes

Evil comes to us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Men Quotes , Evil Quotes

My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.

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Tags : Ad Reinhardt Quotes , Light Quotes , Evil Quotes

People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Writing Quotes , Evil Quotes

As a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of evil; as a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of good.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Evil Quotes

Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Wall Quotes , Evil Quotes

Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast

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One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.

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All who do evil and dishonorable things do them against their will.

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To Dogmatism the Spirit of Inquiry is the same as the Spirit of Evil.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Evil Quotes , Inquiry Quotes

The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Lying Quotes , Evil Quotes