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“When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.”

Evil Literature Function Claims Excellence Opposition Good And Evil Betray Indifferent Forfeit

Book:The Simone Weil Reader

Source: The Simone Weil Reader

“Analysis takes back with one hand what it gives with the other. I recoil in fear and loathing from that deplorable evil: continuous functions with no derivatives.”

Giving Hands Evil Function Analysis Loathing Derivatives Fear And Loathing Recoil

Author:Charles Hermite

“It is the function of God Rama to destroy evil, wherever it occurs and it is equally the function of God Rama to give to his devotees like Bibhishana a free charter of irrevocable self-government.”

Giving Self Government Evil Function Rama Charter Self-government Devotee Irrevocable

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“In doing zazen it is desirable to have a quiet room. You should be temperate in eating and drinking, forsaking all delusive relationships. Setting everything aside, think of neither good nor evil, right nor wrong. Thus having stopped the various functions of your mind, five up even the idea of becoming a Buddha.”

Thinking Should Mind Ideas Evil Rooms Five Becoming Quiet Eating Function Drinking Various Setting Settings Desirable Eating And Drinking Quiet Room

Author:Dogen

“The words are the words. Seriously. Meaning you don't have boo-boo words. You can do boo-boo things. You can have sex, carnage, mayhem, whatever you're looking for. "The Evil Dead" movies, in my opinion, function better in an unrestricted world.”

World Evil Sex Can Do Opinion Function Mayhem Carnage Boo Boo Evil Dead

Author:Bruce Campbell

“The peril of this century is spiritual apathy. As the body requires sunlight, good food, proper exercise and rest, so the spirit of man requires the sunlight of the Holy Spirit; proper exercise of the spiritual functions; the avoiding of evils that affect spiritual health, that are more ravaging in their effects than typhoid fever, pneumonia, or other diseases that attack the body.”

Men Body Spiritual Spirit Evil Effects Century Exercise Holy Disease Function Holy Spirit Apathy Sunlight Avoiding Peril Fever Good Food Spiritual Health Pneumonia Typhoid

Author:David O. McKay

“The evil eye is the fascinum, it is that which has the effect of arresting movement and, literally, of killing life. At the moment the subject stops, suspending his gesture, he is mortified. This anti-life, anti-movement function of the terminal point is the fascinum, and it is precisely one of the dimensions in which the power of the gaze is exercised directly.”

Moments Eye Evil Subjects Effects Movement Function Killing Dimensions Gestures Terminal Arresting Evil Eye

Book:The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis

Source: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis

“The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.”

People Government Evil Easy Difficult Function

Author:Daniel Webster

“Or maybe what he fears is just the opposite: that nobody is looking; that his death, like his life, is without purpose; that there is neither greater good nor evil--only people living and dying because their bodies function and then do not; that the universe is a rip.”

People Body Life Is Purpose Universe Evil Greater Dying Opposites Function Rip Greater Good

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to be the revealed law of God (which, we must note, was addressed specifically to perennial problems in political morality), then what will it be? In some form or expression it will have to be the law of man (or men) — the standard of self-law or autonomy.”

Ifs Men Self Form Law Evil Force Expression Standards Function Vain Guidance Good And Evil Ethical Autonomy Brutes Commonwealth Autonomous Magistrates Brute Force

Author:Greg L. Bahnsen

“This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.”

Action Evil History Highest Function Regard Terror Deeds Worthy Posterity

Book:The Annals & The Histories

Source: The Annals & The Histories

“The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.”

Life Inspirational Wisdom Inspiration Motivational Motivation Evil Function Philosophical Intelligence Good And Evil

Book:De Officiis: (English Edition)

Source: De Officiis: (English Edition)

“Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant - not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power... 'Exploitation'... belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will to life.”

Body Evil Grows Dying Morality Consequence Essence Function Strive Spread Good And Evil Exploitation Will Power Immorality Good Evil Beyond Good And Evil

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche