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“Evil happens, thought Harry, it doesn’t mean anything or teach us anything, except to not be evil.”

Book:Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

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Eliezer Yudkowsky

Eliezer Yudkowsky is a writer known for his contributions to the fields of artificial intelligence and cognitive science, particularly in the areas of reinforcement learning and rationalist philosophy. more

“Zlo je nepobjedivo u svome segmentu hijeroglifičnosti zahvaljujući kojoj zavjerenički ruje i potkopava. Iz razloga što samo sebe ponekad ne može dešifrirati kao takvo, kao i stoga što samo sebe takvim ne može spoznati, ono je nesputano, i upravo iz te nesputanosti crpi svoju najveću moć.”

Evil

Book:Umijeće življenja

Source: Umijeće življenja

“The arbitrator is a robber, The remover of need orders its creation. The town is a floodwater, The punisher of evil commits crimes!”

Evil Crime Robber Arbitrator

Book:Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

Source: Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

“You should be the model for all men, But your affairs are crooked! The standard for all men cheats the whole land! The vintner of evil waters his plot with crimes, Until his plot sprouts falsehood, His estate flows with crimes!”

Men Evil Land Crime Affair Falsehood Cheat All Model Sprout

Book:Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

Source: Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

“The perfection of created life and the absolute beauty of nature is tarnished only by mortality and the cruel evils perpetrated by human kind. If humanity is the plague- only the divine is the cure...”

Life Death Humanity Evil Divine Mortality Plague Cure

Author:Anonymous

“Evil, far from existing by itself, is nothing other than default, the lapse, the lack, or the absence of goodness. Let us, therefore, seek to fill this void and vacancy wherever we find it by doing good to our fellow men, by dispensing happiness to them.”

Happiness Evil Goodness Doing Good

Book:Bearing Your Troubles Well: Your Path to Peace in Difficult Times

Source: Bearing Your Troubles Well: Your Path to Peace in Difficult Times

“Dining with the King; your attire, attitude and mentality must change.”

Success Inspirational Quotes Self Improvement The Best Option The Prince And The Pauper Risk It Be Different

Book:Risk It, Be Different

Source: Risk It, Be Different

“Whoever does evil lack understanding of what is good.”

Wisdom Motivation Evil Understanding Knowledge Deeds Good

Author:Lailah Gifty Akita

“But what when there [is] not enough? Then force entered in; might making right; power, and it’s tool, violence, and its most devoted ally, the averted eye.”

Evil Violence In Society

Book:The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

Source: The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“I have witnessed evil for which there is no absolution!”

Evil

Book:Origin

Source: Origin

“The Germanic morality cannot be arranged in a hierarchy of good qualities. There is not the slightest approach among the Teutons to a system in which one virtue is vaulted above another like a series of heavens. Such an order of precedence presupposes centralisation; all men must be united under the same condemnation before they can be classified. Neither has the Germanic mind any conception of a common moral Gehenna. Strictly speaking, evil, nidinghood, has no reality at all, but must be interpreted as a negative, a total lack of human qualities. Nidinghood is the shadow every "honour" casts according to its nature. Therefore the boundary line between admiration and contempt stands sharply, without transition stages, without any neutral grey. And therefore the boundary lies differently for different people. What makes a man a niding, a criminal and a wretch, depends on what made him a man of honour.”

Evil Morality Teutons

Book:The Culture of the Teutons: Volumes 1 and 2

Source: The Culture of the Teutons: Volumes 1 and 2

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