top of page

"Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity."
Standard
Customized
More

"There are heroes in evil as well as in good."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."
Author Name
Personal Development

"The evil thing is inside, not out."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?"
Author Name
Personal Development

"Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us."
Author Name
Personal Development

"She's had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth to do battle with evil."
Author Name
Personal Development

"The real thing about evil, you figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret."
Author Name
Personal Development

"The joy of seeing another person in pain, frustrated or angry is a delicacy only for the most wicked."
Author Name
Personal Development

"The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Seeing them assembled in Tartarus, Percy felt as hopeless as the spirits in the River Cocytus. So what if he was a hero? So what if he did something brave? Evil was always here, regenerating, bubbling under the surface. Percy was no more than a minor annoyance to these immortal beings. They just had to outwait him. Someday, Percy's sons or daughters might have to face them all over again."
Author Name
Personal Development
More


"Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier."
Creativity


"The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie."
Perception


"Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity."
Evil


"No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square."
Competition


"But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell."
Family


"Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble."
Work


"Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them."
Heart
bottom of page