Evil is whatever distracts.

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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist we create it. The nonexistent is w

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Heaven is dumb echoing only the dumb.

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is in fact

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty if he wished to drop the Earth and creep awa

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty if he wished to drop the Earth and creep away, but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

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    Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

    Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

    Of all the bad men, religious bad men are the worst.

    Of all the bad men, religious bad men are the worst.

    Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them.

    Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them.

    In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people’s wrath.

    In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people’s wrath.

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