Swami Vivekananda Quotes, Roots Quotes, Evil Quotes

The root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies. This, if any, is the original sin.

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I could not help feeling that they were evil things-- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. That seething , half-luminous cloud-background held ineffable suggestions of a vague, ethereal beyondness far more than terrestrially spatial; and gave appalling reminders of the utter remoteness, separateness, desolation, and aeon-long death of this untrodden and unfathomed austral world.

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In what way, or by what manner of working, God changes a soul from evil to good, how He impregnates the barren rock--the priceless gems and gold--is to the human mind an impenetrable mystery, in all cases alike.

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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

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The non-doing of any evil, the performance of what's skillful, the cleansing of one's own mind: this is the teaching of the Awakened.

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We've come to know truths that we will never question: evil is real, and it must be opposed.

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Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.

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You cannot cure a lesser evil by a greater evil.

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Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Evil Quotes , Done Quotes

The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.

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And out of good still to find means of evil.

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I shall never know God if I do not wrestle with and against evil, even at the cost of life itself.

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A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of mind, that disposition to be comforted, that power of turning readily from evil to good, and of finding employment which carried her out of herself, which was from nature alone. It was the choicest gift of Heaven; and Anne viewed her friend as one of those instances in which, by a merciful appointment, it seems designed to counterbalance almost every other want.

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Evil is the starry sky of the Good.

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Human law cannot punish or forbid all evil, since while doing away with evils it would do away with many good things, which would hinder the advance of the common good.

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Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.

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In vain produced, all rays return; Evil will bless, and ice will burn.

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

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There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out.

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Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.

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