Unfortunately, a human being is able to comprehend only that amount of evil which he is able to commit himself.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it.
Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
For something to be completely evil is to be nothing. Satan has good attributes - intelligence, for instance - but they are corrupted. I cannot reconcile myself emotionally to alternative understandings of evil.
Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor. There is no context which would make it explicable.
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
Evil is whatever distracts.
Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side, in order to be good.
There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
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