“We do not sufficiently respect that anti-mephistoclean force which, like the mephistoclean one, threatens the balance of life: a force that constantly wishes what is good and constantly produces what is evil.” EvilSinMoralityDevilTemptationFaustMephistopheles Book:Grenzen der Gemeinschaft Source: Grenzen der Gemeinschaft
“The devil, cheated of his legitimate portion of human life, avenges itself by taking over all of life.” EvilMoralityDevilIdealismPerfectionismPuritanism Book:Grenzen der Gemeinschaft Source: Grenzen der Gemeinschaft
“Everything must be structured around the center - from the core of the being of the person and not just one aspect of him, from his heart, as the vernacular names the source of the individual - and not from his head. The excessive stretching of the consciousness of responsibility - for which the excessive expansion of the belief in reason, in the social and political effectiveness of conviction, is to blame - already has been broken asunder in the world ... For the most serious human evil is lack of moderation.” EvilMoralityGuiltExcessModerationExtremismPerfectionismPuritanism Book:Grenzen der Gemeinschaft Source: Grenzen der Gemeinschaft