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#1

“The best men are not consistent in good—why should the worst men be consistent in evil?”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

tags: consistent, good-and-evil, mr-hartright

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#2

“There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: good-and-evil, inspirational, life

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#3

“What if evil doesn't really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up by man, and there is nothing to struggle against except out own limitations? The constant battle between our will, our desires, and our choices?”
― Libba Bray, Rebel Angels

tags: challenges, good-and-evil

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#4

“Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Islands in the Stream

tags: good-and-evil, inspirational

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#5

“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.”
― Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

tags: attacking, defending, duality, fighting, good-and-evil, good-vs-evil, religion, true-wisdom, war, wisdom

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#6

“Perhaps man was neither good nor bad, was only a machine in an insensate universe--his courage no more than a reflex to danger, like the automatic jump at the pin-prick. Perhaps there were no virtues, unless jumping at pin-pricks was a virtue, and humanity only a mechanical donkey led on by the iron carrot of love, through the pointless treadmill of reproduction.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

tags: good-and-evil, meaninglessness, the-absurd, virtues

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#7

“Light and Dark: each was unaware that the other existed.”
― Ashim Shanker, Don't Forget to Breathe

tags: ashim-shanker, chaos-and-order, cognition, contemplation, creation, dark, don-t-forget-to-breathe, dualities, enlightenment, entity, existence, faith-and-doubt, good-and-evil, illusion-of-self, light, metaphysics, migrations, morality, ontology, perception, philosophy, pluralism, poetry, shadow

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#8

“To enter the Buddha Way is to stop discriminating between good and evil and to cast aside the mind that says this is good and that is bad.”
― Dōgen, A Primer of Soto Zen: A Translation of Dogen's Shobogenzo Zuimonki

tags: buddha-way, good-and-evil, let-go, zen

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#9

“If the universe is trying to maintain balance, we must aid this by ensuring that Good is not enjoyed excessively. Or else the universe will re-balance itself by creating Evil to counteract Good. That is the purpose of Evil: it balances the Good.”
― Amish Tripathi, The Oath of the Vayuputras

tags: balance, good-and-evil, wisdom

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#10

“Beware when wrong-doing is called good and right-doing is called evil.”
― R. Alan Woods, The Journey Is the Destination: A Book of Quotes With Commentaries

tags: deception, delusional, good-and-evil, good-vs-evil, r-alan-woods

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