Good And Evil Quotes - Page 2
The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.
Henry David Thoreau (1862). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. By Henry D. Thoreau”, p.381
Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com
William Pitt (Earl of Chatham), Edmund Burke, Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine, Jean Gabriel Peltier (1834). “Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine: To which is Added the Arguement of Mr. Mackintosh in the Case of Peltier”, p.298
Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Burger's Daughter”, p.304, Bloomsbury Publishing
Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others
Matthieu Ricard, Trinh Xuan Thuan (2009). “The Quantum and the Lotus: A Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet”, p.19, Broadway Books
Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.
Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.200, Macmillan
Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.72
William Godwin (1796). “Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness”, p.185
'Pleasures of Hope' (1799) pt. 2, l. 174
Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “The New Nationalism”, Best Books on
Phyllis Bottome (1934). “Innocence and experience: stories”
In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil.
Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.21, North Atlantic Books
1644 Areopagitica: a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing.
