--- QUOTES
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
~ Cicero
Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
~ Hegel
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
~ Socrates
All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
~ Bodhidharma
Evil does not exist; once you have crossed the threshold, all is good. Once in another world, you must hold your tongue.
~ Franz Kafka
The imagination is like a knife which may be used for good or evil purposes.
~ The Mother Questions And Answers 1929-1931
Always we must repeat to the doubting intellect the promise of the Master,
'I will deliver thee from all sin and evil; do not grieve.'
At the end, the flickerings of faith will cease; for we shall see his face and feel always the Divine Presence.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga
It is true that the root of all this evil is the ego-sense and that the seat of the conscious ego-sense is the mind itself; but in reality the conscious mind only reflects an ego already created in the subconscious mind in things, the dumb soul in the stone and the plant which is present in all body and life and only finally delivered into voicefulness and wakefulness but not originally created by the conscious mind. And in this upward procession it is the life-energy which has become the obstinate knot of the ego, it is the desire-mind which refuses to relax the knot even when the intellect and the heart have discovered the cause of their ills and would be glad enough to remove it; for the Prana in them is the Animal who revolts and who obscures and deceives their knowledge and coerces their will by his refusal.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga
What is evil? Whatever springs from weakness.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist
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The noun evil has 3 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (6) evil, immorality, wickedness, iniquity ::: (morally objectionable behavior) 2. (4) evil ::: (that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune; "the evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones"- Shakespeare) 3. (3) evil, evilness ::: (the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice; "attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world")
--- Overview of adj evil_
The adj evil has 3 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (9) evil ::: (morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds") 2. (1) evil, vicious ::: (having the nature of vice) 3. malefic, malevolent, malign, evil ::: (having or exerting a malignant influence; "malevolent stars"; "a malefic force")
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun evil_