The evil of our time
is the loss of consciousness of evil.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti
is the loss of consciousness of evil.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti
For nothing is evil in the beginning.
-J. R. R. Tolkien
Evil, in so far as it exists,
is the affirmation of disorder.
-Eliphas Levi
Evil is wrought by want of thought
as well as want of heart!
-Thomas Hood
Evil is the denial of reason in the philosophical world.
It is the denial of responsibility in the social world.
it is opposition to the inviolable laws of nature in the physical world.
-Eliphas Levi
Evil comes from the abuse of free will.
-C. S. Lewis
Evil is nothing more than being in a state of unconsciousness,
of being asleep.
-Vernon Howard
Evil needs to be understood for what it is:
the dynamic of the absence of Light.
-Gary Zukav
Evil is like a shadow.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
Evil is a negative, not a positive term.
It denotes the absence rather than the presence of something.
It is the perceived privation of good,
the shadow where the light ought to be.
'The devil is a vacuum.'
-R. J. Campbell
Evil is a shadow, the foil of good.
-Eliphas Levi
Evil is good or truth misplaced.
-Mohandas Gandhi
The evil is null, is naught,
is silence implying sound.
-Robert Browning
is silence implying sound.
-Robert Browning
Evils are only evils
in relation to a certain thing,
-Maimonides
Evil will arise whenever the outward manifestations of life
come to be valued more than its central essence.
-Martin Goldsmith
If evil has any reality, this is … its definition:
complete identification with form -
physical forms, thought forms, emotional forms.
This results in a total unawareness of [our] connectedness with the whole,
[our] intrinsic oneness with every “other”
as well as with the Source.
-Eckhart Tolle
He who seeks the origin of evil, seeks the source of what is not.
Evil is the disordered appetite of good,
the unfruitful attempt of an unskilful will.
-Eliphas Levi
The evil of the world is made possible
by nothing but the sanction you give it.
-Ayn Rand
The central defect of evil is not the sin
but the refusal to acknowledge it.
-M. Scott Peck
Evil has as much power as is given to it.
-Gernot Candolini
Evil is a hill.
Everyone gets on his own and talks about someone else's.
-African Proverb
According to Native American wisdom,
the only way evil can penetrate the human heart
is through the door of fear.
-Matthew Fox
In the degree that we hold a person in thought of evil or in error,
do we suggest evil and error to him...
and so in this way we may be sharers in the very evil-doing
in which we hold another in thought.
-Ralph Waldo Trine
Evil is sometimes like a tool in the hand;
recognized or unrecognized,
it lets itself be laid aside without protest if one so wills.
-Franz Kafka
The great epochs of life come
when we gain the courage to re-christen our evil
as what is best in us.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Three hundred poems
come to one thing:
"Think no evil!"
-A Zen Garden
Neither fight evil nor embrace it;
simply rise above it.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
