#evil

He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil. ↗

— Machado de Assis

#evil #good #art

Like sin itself, Satan appeals to the senses. He originated and perfected the art of disguising evil as good. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#sin #art

They're power-hungry, the mundane said of the magical people. They're immoral, people said, and they're scary. Playing with the dark arts could plunge me into evil. I'd be pulled toward depravity. Blasphemy would begin to seem like truth, bad like good, God like Satan. It had happened to people through the centuries, they said. And they were right. All that did happen. ↗

— Christine Wicker

#evil #magical-people #mundanes #art

None of us can avoid being contaminated by the world's evils; it's all a matter of what attitude you take towards them. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#evil #attitude

If you find yourself about to complain, think of your many blessings and rejoice! Don't give the devil a ride today, because then he'll want to drive full-time. So, kick his attitude of complaining spirit out of your blessed zone. Don't give the devil NOTHING!! ↗

— Anita R. Sneed-Carter

#complaining #devil #rejoice #zone #attitude

I can think of nothing that would fill Satan with greater glee or better signify the ultimate success of its conquest of the human race than an attitude on the part of humans that it is impossible to identify evil. ↗

— M Scott Peck

#theology #attitude

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty. ↗

— David Hume

#beholder #evil #god #perception #religion

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, there arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, there arises the recognition of evil. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#beauty

He paused at the bedroom door, shut his eyes, took a deep breath, and walked right out like it was any other morning, and he and Jack would be having breakfast as if they hadn't had sex the night before. "Morning," he said, casting a quick glance over his shoulder. "Mmm," D grunted. "You done in the bathroom?" D blinked. No, I jus' took a little breather in the middle a my mornin' beauty ritual ta come out here 'n' chat with ya. A course I'm done. ↗

— Jane Seville

#jane-seville #sarcasm #beauty

There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#evil #beauty