“The tavern haunter wanders lonely in a desert And sees the whole world as a mirage. The desert is limitless and endless… — Mahmud Shabistari Copy Share Image
“When we say that this definition of good and evil is objective, what we mean is that it is as objective as… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
It’s true that someone will always say that good and evil don’t exist: that is a person who has never had any… — Amelie Nothomb Copy Share Image
Where there is light, there must be shadow, where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a war against” whatever-it-is, you… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Insight: all evaluation is made from a definite perspective: that of the preservation of the individual, a community, a race, a state,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Bathed in shades of violet, she comes in the dark. Power unrecognized, half human, half mar. Born in lightning, anointed in tears,… — Tracy Deebs Copy Share Image
“Your moral code begins by damning man as evil, then demands that he practice a good which it defines as impossible for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Populous cities are destroyed by earthquakes, and desolated by pestilence. Ambition is every where devoting its millions to incalculable calamity. Superstition, in… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Good, evil, these are human concepts, ways people have for understanding what it means to be alive,” Nick said. “Before people came… — Abramelin Keldor Copy Share Image
“Stories have changed, my dear boy,”the man in the grey suit says, his voice almost imperceptibly sad. “There are no more battles… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“…the expression “beyond good and evil” is all too easily (mis)understood. When we say of someone that he is acting as if… — Alenka Zupancic Copy Share Image
Ethics occupies a central place in philosophy because it is concerned with sin, with the origin of good and evil and with… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
“History testifies to the truth that it is misery that teaches men more than happiness, that it is poverty that strengthens them… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Tell me something. Do you believe in God?' Snow darted an apprehensive glance in my direction. 'What? Who still believes nowadays?' 'It… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites - day and night, birth and death,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What do I know about God and the purpose of life? I know that this world exists. That I am placed in… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“The essence of this knowledge was the ability to 'see all' and to 'know all'. Was this not precisely the ability Adam… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
So in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride - the temptation blithely… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“They preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“According to Scripture, Solomon was in Gibeon making his usual sacrifices (1 Kgs. 3:4). While he was there, YHWH appeared to him… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“God wants to rescue us, not destroy us. You don't have to be afraid of being happy, thinking that he wants to… — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
“All transitions involve leaving a consolidated self behind before any new self can take its place. At the 4-5 shift this means… — Robert Kegan Copy Share Image
“Whatever variety evolution brings forth... Every new dimension of world-response...means another modality for God's trying out his hidden essence and discovering himself… — Hans Jonas Copy Share Image
This is a deeply uncanny and very troubling development, it exists, and it wants to take us back. It wants to take… — Mark Crispin Miller Copy Share Image
“What the author of Genesis wants to tell us, I think, is that man, when united with God, is not divided. In… — Francisco X. Stork Copy Share Image
“There is mingled good and evil in all the events and governments of this world, and good often arises side by side… — M. Guizot Copy Share Image
“The Party denied the free will of the individual - and at the same time it exacted his willing self-sacrifice. It denied… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I don't think we have all the words in a single vocabulary to explain what we are or why we are. I… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
“Theoretically, let's stipulate, for argument's sake, that there are a lot of powerful people at a university like this who believe things… — Andrew Klavan Copy Share Image
“Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“My dear Michael, I have given you my heart. I have said that I loved you, and I have pledged myself to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Everything in this world seems to be created in pairs. If there is a man, there is a woman—in almost equal numbers.… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
“The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“[The Christian story] amounts to a refusal to affirm life. In the biblical tradition we have inherited, life is corrupt, and every… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Non-violent resistance to evil is a quintessential element of the character of a real human being. If someone does wrong to me,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Is it possible for a man to be a good man when he is also a bad man? Is it possible for… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Virtue and vice suppose the freedom to choose between good and evil; but what can be the morals of a woman who… — Flora Tristan Copy Share Image
![“[The Christian story] amounts to a refusal to affirm life. In the biblical tradition we have inherited, life is corrupt, and every natural impulse is sinful unless it has been circumcised or baptized. The serpent was the one who brought sin into the wold. And the woman was the one who handed the…” quote by Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/82b/joseph-campbell-300_adam-and-eve_the-christian-story-amounts-to-a-refusal_170106.jpg)
