5 Quotes by William James about evil
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It may be that no religious reconciliation with the absolute totality of things is possible. Some evils, indeed, are ministerial to higher forms of good; but it may be that there are forms of evil so extreme as to enter into no good system whatsoever…
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There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it positively refuses to account for are a genuine portion of reality; and they may after all be the best key to life's significance, and possibly the only openers of our eyes to the deepest levels of truth.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.
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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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