5 Quotes by William James about evil

  • Author William James
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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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  • Author William James
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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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    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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