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“There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.”

Thinking Giving Humans Mean Evil Human Nature Greatness Willing Ready Goodness Ears Welcome Jealousy Reports Calumny Calumny Is

Book:Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

“I've learned to distinguish between the greatness of God and the inexcusable evil that has been done by those professing his name. And so I do not deduce [as Christopher Hitchens does] that God is not great, and that religion poisons everything. After all, if I failed to distinguish between the genius of Einstein and the abuse of his science to create weapons of mass destruction, I might be tempted to say science is not great, and technology poisons everything.”

“It is due to neither impotence nor ignorance on God’s part that evils occur in the world, but it is owing to the order of his wisdom and to the greatness of his goodness, whence come the many and divers grades of goodness in things, many of which would be lacking were he to allow no evil to exist. Thus there would be no good of patience without the evil of persecution, nor the good of the preservation of its life in a lion, without the evil of the destruction of the animals on which it lives.”

Ifs World Would Be Order Evil Animal Greatness Ignorance Goodness Weakness Destruction Accounts Dues Grades Lions Diverse Lacking Preservation Persecution Preservation Of Life

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“Evil is easily discovered; there is an infinite variety; good is almost unique. But some kinds of evil are almost as difficult to discover as that which we call good; and often particular evil of this class passes for good. It needs even a certain greatness of soul to attain to this, as to that which is good.”

Needs Kind Soul Certain Evil Difficult Class Greatness Particular Unique Infinite Variety

Book:Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

Source: Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

“Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendor, can never confer real happiness; the evil consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the steps of the malefactor; while the paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.”

May Long Real Evil Steps Forever Virtue Path Crime Greatness Consequence Guilt Ghost Worldly Splendor Real Happiness

Author:Walter Scott

“Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.”

Inspirational Needs Motivation Three Evil Greatness Encouragement Vices Boredom Spares Cool Motivational

Author:Voltaire

“Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact, he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.”

People World Way Humans Country Facts Humanity Evil Nations Greatness Blame Appreciation Around The World Resent Human Potential No Appreciation

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Recipe For Greatness - To bear up under loss; To fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief; To be victor over anger; To smile when tears are close; To resist disease and evil men and base instincts; To hate hate and to love love; To go on when it would seen good to die; To look up with unquenchable faith in something ever more about to be. That is what any man can do, and be great.”

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Author:Zane Grey

“Man is capable of greatness, love, nobility, compassion. Yet never forget that his capacity for evil is infinite. It is a sad truth, boy, that if you sit now and think of the worst tortures that could ever be inflicted on another human being, they will already have been practiced somewhere. If there is one sound that follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.”

Ifs Thinking Men Humans Has Beens Humanity Evil Sound Human Beings Forget Compassion Boys Worst Greatness Capable Capacity Infinite Torture March Never Forget Scream Nobility Sad Truth

Book:Bloodstone

Source: Bloodstone

“Greatness and Truth can never be in danger from these murdering wretches. To perform one's duty, be it now, be it clean, and be it done with humility… A man is a sacred thing. ANY ACTION OR THOUGHT WHICH INJURES THE HUMAN IMAGINATION IS EVIL.”

Men Humans Done Action Evil Imagination Danger Greatness Humility Duty Sacred Clean Human Imagination Sacred Things

Author:Kenneth Patchen

“So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.”

Men Humans Country Would Be Universe Evil Wish Greater Conditions Greatness Citizens Neighbor Nationalism Human Condition Fatherland

Author:Voltaire

“Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of empty thinking, bestows a greatness that is solid and administers a check to greatness where it is puffed up and all an empty show; she sees that we are left no doubt about the difference between what is great and what is bloated.”

Thinking Men Mind Real States Philosophy Shows Happiness Evil Left Differences Doubt Greatness Empty Aim Checks No Doubt Emptiness

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils - no, nor the human race, as I believe - and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day.”

Source: The Republic

“It is a law of our humanity, that man must know both good and evil; he must know good through evil. There never was a principle but what triumphed through much evil; no man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.”

Knows Men Law Humanity Evil Mistake Principles Greatness Goodness Great Mistakes

Author:Frederick William Robertson

“Infidelity and faith look both through the perspective glass, but at contrary ends. Infidelity looks through the wrong end of the glass; and, therefore, sees those objects near which are afar off, and makes great things little,-diminishing the greatest spiritual blessings, and removing far from us threatened evils. Faith looks at the right end, and brings the blessings that are far off in time close to our eye, and multiplies God's mercies, which, in a distance, lost their greatness.”

Source: Works: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings