All JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Quotes about “Evil”

“The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.”
“Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.”
“It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.”
“I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus everything that that your terms, sin, Destruction, evil representâ€” That is my proper element.”
“To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.”
“The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain.”
“The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain. [Ger., Den Bosen sind sie los, die Bosen sind geblieben.]”
“Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our brightest hopes, that the dawn of happiness breaks. It is not there where we have glanced our eye with affright, that we find the deadliest gloom. What should this teach us? To bow to the great and only Source of light, and live humbly and with confiding resignation.”
“I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil.”
“What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.”
“The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.”

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