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Link	Quote	Tags	Author
f89ddc9	"I care not whether a man is Good or Evil; all that I care Is whether he is a Wise man or a Fool. Go! put off Holiness,	fool good holiness intelligence philosophy religion stupidity wisdom	William Blake
adfc118	Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surround us or we light a candle to see by. We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where it's irresponsible to try to protect them from the irrational world they will have to live in when they grow up.... Our responsibility to them is not to pretend that if we don't look, evil will go away, but to give them weapons against it.	darkness evil good growing-up inspiration light raising-children	Madeleine L'Engle
3a5b580	Nothing in the record of human history argues for divine morality, and a great deal argues against it. What we know is that good people very often suffer terribly, while the perpetrators of horrific evil backstroke through all the pleasures of the world. There is no evidence that the score is ever evened in this life or any after.	evil god good good-and-evil history religion suffering	Ta-Nehisi Coates
44c34d0	"Everyone," Caitlin said, cradling her wine glass, "is the hero of his own story. That goes double for fanatics. Some of the greatest horrors in history were perpetrated by people who insisted, all the way to damnation's door, that they fought on the side of the angels."	good heroes history	Craig Schaefer
ef729d0	It is not simply that suppression of self is required before accurate vision can be obtained. The great artist sees his objects (and this is true whether they are sad, absurd, repulsive or even evil) in a light of justice and mercy. The direction of attention is, contrary to nature, outward, away from self which reduces all to a false unity, towards the great surprising variety of the world, and the ability so to direct attention is love.	attention evil good learning-to-see love self	Iris Murdoch
d979d81	"For the grace of bearing life's inevitable evils is itself a	good life philosophy	A.C. Grayling
75d7065	Netiquette Positive Word of The Day: Able - having skill to do something. Intelligence is a synonym. NetworkEtiquette.net	blog definition digital-etiquette effective-communication good internet-etiquette netiquette nice positive proper social-media social-network status-update word words	David Chiles
29ff3a3	I had been agitating for a pet for some time. In my head I had a white rabbit called Ezra who bit people who ignored me. Ezra's pelt was as white as the soul in heaven but his heart was black...	evil good pets rabbits vengeance	Jeanette Winterson
cbced9a	I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on all the good things still in my life. On the people who are coming to see me. On the stories I'm going to hear. On you - if it's Tuesday. Because we're Tuesday people.	cry dying good life need people self story tuesday	Mitch Albom
9fba5ad	A law is not good merely because the legislature wills it, but the legislature has the mortal duty to will only that which is good.	good john-howard-griffin judgement law	John Howard Griffin

"I care not whether a man is Good or Evil; all that I care Is whether he is a Wise man or a Fool. Go! put off Holiness,

fool good holiness intelligence philosophy religion stupidity wisdom

William Blake

adfc118

Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surround us or we light a candle to see by. We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where it's irresponsible to try to protect them from the irrational world they will have to live in when they grow up.... Our responsibility to them is not to pretend that if we don't look, evil will go away, but to give them weapons against it.

darkness evil good growing-up inspiration light raising-children

Madeleine L'Engle

3a5b580

Nothing in the record of human history argues for divine morality, and a great deal argues against it. What we know is that good people very often suffer terribly, while the perpetrators of horrific evil backstroke through all the pleasures of the world. There is no evidence that the score is ever evened in this life or any after.

evil god good good-and-evil history religion suffering

Ta-Nehisi Coates

44c34d0

"Everyone," Caitlin said, cradling her wine glass, "is the hero of his own story. That goes double for fanatics. Some of the greatest horrors in history were perpetrated by people who insisted, all the way to damnation's door, that they fought on the side of the angels."

good heroes history

Craig Schaefer

ef729d0

It is not simply that suppression of self is required before accurate vision can be obtained. The great artist sees his objects (and this is true whether they are sad, absurd, repulsive or even evil) in a light of justice and mercy. The direction of attention is, contrary to nature, outward, away from self which reduces all to a false unity, towards the great surprising variety of the world, and the ability so to direct attention is love.

attention evil good learning-to-see love self

Iris Murdoch

d979d81

"For the grace of bearing life's inevitable evils is itself a

good life philosophy

A.C. Grayling

75d7065

Netiquette Positive Word of The Day: Able - having skill to do something. Intelligence is a synonym. NetworkEtiquette.net

blog definition digital-etiquette effective-communication good internet-etiquette netiquette nice positive proper social-media social-network status-update word words

David Chiles

29ff3a3

I had been agitating for a pet for some time. In my head I had a white rabbit called Ezra who bit people who ignored me. Ezra's pelt was as white as the soul in heaven but his heart was black...

evil good pets rabbits vengeance

Jeanette Winterson

cbced9a

I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on all the good things still in my life. On the people who are coming to see me. On the stories I'm going to hear. On you - if it's Tuesday. Because we're Tuesday people.

cry dying good life need people self story tuesday

Mitch Albom

9fba5ad

A law is not good merely because the legislature wills it, but the legislature has the mortal duty to will only that which is good.

good john-howard-griffin judgement law

John Howard Griffin