#evil

We feel a deep pleasure from realizing that we believe something in common with our friends, and different from most people. We feel an even deeper pleasure letting everyone know of this fact. This feeling is EVIL. Learn to see it in yourself, and then learn to be horrified by how thoroughly it can poison your mind. Yes evidence may at times force you to disagree with a majority, and your friends may have correlated exposure to that evidence, but take no pleasure when you and your associates disagree with others; that is the road to rationality ruin. ↗

— Robin Hanson

#inspirational #rationality #ruin #inspirational

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#stupidity #stupidity

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want. ↗

— Voltaire

#evil #greed #labor #need #vice

Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#evil #faust #good #good-and-evil

We are what we are. Nothing more, nothing less. There is good and evil among every kind of people. It's the evil among us who rule now. ↗

— Anne Bishop

#good #politics #good-and-evil

It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#fight #means #mistake #noble #overcome

Dialogic is not to be identified with love. But love without dialogic, without real outgoing to the other, reaching to the other, the love remaining with itself - this is called Lucifer. ↗

— Martin Buber

#dialog #dialogic #evil #good #i-thou

I may be permitted, like the doctors, to cure a greater evil by a less, for I shall not fall seriously in love with the young widow, I think, nor she with me - that's certain - but if I find a little pleasure in her society I may surely be allowed to seek it; and if the star of her divinity be bright enough to dim the lustre of Eliza's, so much the better, but I scarcely can think it ↗

— Anne Brontë

#falling-in-love #pleasure #society #love

I found it hateful, yet I wanted to be part of it. ↗

— Storm Constantine

#evil #humanity #society #love

Being full of mischief, they love to listen; they gladly obey, for they like to betray you, pretending to be sent from Heaven, and lisping like angels, while they lie. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#faust #faustian-legend #faustus #love