Bases Quote by Boris Sidis

It is a law of our humanity, that man must know both good and evil; he must know good through evil. There never was…

— Frederick William Robertson

“There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil—a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome”

— Jane Austen

True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of…

— Baruch Spinoza

It is the law of our humanity that man must know good through evil. No great principle ever triumphed but through much evil. No…

— Frederick William Robertson

We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is…

— Dean Koontz

Even an evil man can have principles—he can be true to his own evil, which is not always so easy.

— Norman Mailer

“What does it take for a person to be able to recognize evil as it unfolds? To see with foresight and acuity .”

— Jessica Shattuck

“Evil is the worst necessity for mankind to learn and earn better life.”

— Toba Beta

You have to understand the good in things, to detect the real evil.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

The choice of evil is given, so that restraint could be taught and practiced, and a higher level of enlightment could be achieved.

— QJ

“It is also essential that good men and women not be educated and propagandized into believing that real evil is a myth and that…

— Dean Koontz

Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe…

— Reinhold Niebuhr