Evil has a way of propagating like a plague. Where plague is a disease of the body, evil is a disease of the soul. It spreads through our actions: an act of evil done to someone infests their soul, so that they desire to do evil in return. And evil grows with each turn, the revenge act must be the greater. The best way to deal with evil is to turn it into something good, before it has the chance to spread. Each of us has the ability to have evil stop with us.Anonymous. The Treatise of Wisdom (Kindle Locations 4492-4494). Unknown.
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You are the most lucky person in the world, only if you BELIEVE so.
One Nice Guy asked me, "If a man is talking in the forest and no woman is there to hear him, is he still wrong?
Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.
A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole. Like philosophy, such a venture has no rational excuse, and is at best but a brave stupidity; but let us hope that, like philosophy, it will always lure some rash spirits into its fatal depths.
Lust arrives as an angel disguised as love, but it's still lust, not love.
Moral philosophers say things like, __hat is actually wrong with cannibalism?_ There are two ways of responding to that: one is to shrink back in horror and say, __annibalism! Cannibalism! We can__ talk about cannibalism!_ The other is to say, __ell, actually, what is wrong with cannibalism?_ Then you work it out and you tease it out and you decide yes, actually, cannibalism is wrong, but for the following reasons. So I__ like to think that my moral values at least partly come from reasoning. Trying to suppress the gut reaction as much as possible. ["Is Richard Dawkins destroying his reputation?", The Guardian, 9 June 2015]
There is no good day or bad day, only good or bad actions.