"The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil."

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Source : 'Appearance and Reality' (1893) preface (on optimism)

F. H. Bradley

#Evil Quotes #Optimism Quotes #World Quotes

“This evil, this concept, it comes from disappointment, from bitterness! Don't you see? Children of Satan! Children of God! Is this the only question you bring to me, is this the only power that obsesses you, so that you must make us gods and devils yourself when the only power that exists is inside ourselves? How could you believe in these old fantastical lies, these myths, these emblems of the supernatural?”
“Once you don't have freedom and you're obliged to do many things you don't want, and it becomes a routine, then your identity is at stake because you can feel that you are not anymore yourself, that you are what they want you to be - and you can lose yourself.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“It only takes a second to call a girl fat and She'll take a lifetime trying to starve herself.. think before you act.”
“The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.”
“Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.”
“I believe that modern science supports free will, in showing that the brain can act spontaneously, not only in response to external stimuli.”

Source : Source: deutsche-denker.de
“In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.”
“An apparent confusion, if lived with long enough, may become orderly . . . A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity”

Source : Charles Ives, Stephen Drury (2012). “Piano sonata no. 2: "Concord" : with the Essays before a sonata”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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