All Quotes By Tag: Good-and-evil
“Cleanliness is not next to godliness, it is godliness.”
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“Kurt Cobain was a musical lyric genius. He was the Edgar Allan Poe of songwriting.”
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“With Eyes Like Charles Manson, a life similar to H.P Lovecraft, and lyrics like Edgar Allan Poe, Kurt Cobain was the master of horror in music.”
“Don’t let your past dictate your future,”
“When looking for a job, ignore (don’t even bother with them) those companies who expect you to literally do everything for them and also fail to mention anything about your pay. This is a huge red flag. Run as fast as you can and don’t look back.”
“Work hard but work smart.”
“Darkness is, in reality, nothing but the lack of light. So, darkness is natural, light is unnatural. Yet, it is light that defines the civilized traits of a species. Primitiveness is natural, being civilized is not, and yet, being civilized is what makes us superior to all other species, because we have developed the civilized faculties of conscience in our brain, overpowering the innate primitiveness, that served us well in the wild.”
“Tell me,’ asked Stas, ‘what is a wicked deed?’ ‘If anyone takes away Kali’s cow,’ he answered after a brief reflection, ‘that then is a wicked deed.’ ‘Excellent!’ exclaimed Stas, ‘and what is a good one?’ This time the answer came without any reflection: ‘If Kali takes away the cow of somebody else, that is a good deed.’ Stas was too young to perceive that similar views of evil and good deeds were enunciated in Europe not only by politicians but by whole nations.”
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“[I]t was with a good end in mind – that of acquiring the knowledge of good and evil – that Eve allowed herself to be carried away and eat the forbidden fruit. But Adam was not moved by this desire for knowledge, but simply by greed: he ate it because he heard Eve say it tasted good.”
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“Being bad is not good but too sad, and being good is not at all bad. Is this simple equation,And that’s the elation: More good, more the world is glad!”
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“Let us drink more particularly to the coming of the day when men beyond there will learn to distinguish between qualitative and quantitative questions, to temper good intentions with good intelligence, and righteousness with wisdom. One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.”
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“If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing what’s right.”
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“Good…if you’ve done things you aren’t proud of. It means you have a conscience.”
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“Are the great spiritual teachings really advocating that we fight evil because we are on the side of light, the side of peace? Are they telling us to fight against that other ‘undesirable’ side, the bad and the black. That is a big question. If there is wisdom in the sacred teachings, there should not be any war. As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.”
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“… true evil needs no reason to exist, it simply is and feeds upon itself.”