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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes about Evil

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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Evil, Be Good
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1857). “The Dramatic Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.285

This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Evil, Deeds, Stills

Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction till the keystone is put in. Just such is the use Satan makes of pleasures to construct evil habits upon; the pleasure lasts till the habit is fully formed; but that done the habit may stand eternal. The pleasures are sent for firewood, and the hell begins in this life.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Evil, Arches, May
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 295, 1895.

Ah! well a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young! / Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Evil, Necks, Albatross
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Engell, Harvey Chan (2003). “Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.25, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Heart, Men, Evil
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2005). “AIDS to Reflection and Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit”, p.140, Cosimo, Inc.

In what way, or by what manner of working, God changes a soul from evil to good, how He impregnates the barren rock--the priceless gems and gold--is to the human mind an impenetrable mystery, in all cases alike.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Rocks, Evil, Soul
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1843). “Aids to Reflection”, p.436

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