Aphorism Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

An aphorism is an extreme synthesis of thesis and antithesis, theory and practice, it's a mixture of intuition and observation, hypothesis and illusions of…

— William C. Brown

“There is mingled good and evil in all the events and governments of this world, and good often arises side by side with or…

— M. Guizot

“Misfortune and experience are lost upon mankind, when they produce neither reflection nor reformation. Evils, like poisons, have their uses, and there are diseases…

— Thomas Paine

“Within the human, good or evil aims are never ancient. They are sometimes masqueraded when reinvented in modern means”

— Dew Platt

“any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principle which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being was evil. —”

— Dan Simmons

“Why do progress and beauty have to be so opposed? ; 75 Also, as in war, the case, like a great bubbling cauldron of…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Evil can be destroyed in either direction. Some are meant to be cast down. Others rise, but their elevation is meant to bring about…

— Benjamin Blech

“Progress in evil was quick and easy; Apollyon was not a chap who hid himself and he gave every assistance in his power. The…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“Perhaps the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some…

— Samuel Johnson

The aphorism: a platitude that swerves, or slides all the way around.

— Mason Cooley

It used to be widely held that evil was incompatible with the existence of God: that no possible world contained both God and evil.…

— Peter van Inwagen

“There’s a kind of evil that isn’t even in opposition to good, because good is an irrelevance to it. It’s a foulness that’s right…

— John Connolly