“Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
Source: Meditations
The Black Coat (2013)
“Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
Source: Meditations
Pope Francis (1936) 266th Pope of the Catholic Church
As quoted in "Pope at Mass: Culture of encounter is the foundation of peace" at Vatican Radio (22 May 2013) http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2013/05/22/pope_at_mass:_culture_of_encounter_is_the_foundation_of_peace/en1-694445 <br class="br">2010s, 2013 <br class="br">Context: The Lord created us in His image and likeness, and we are the image of the Lord, and He does good and all of us have this commandment at heart: do good and do not do evil. All of us. "But, Father, this is not Catholic! He cannot do good." Yes, he can. He must. Not can: must! Because he has this commandment within him. Instead, this "closing off" that imagines that those outside, everyone, cannot do good is a wall that leads to war and also to what some people throughout history have conceived of: killing in the name of God. That we can kill in the name of God. And that, simply, is blasphemy. To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.
Franz Kafka book The Blue Octavo Notebooks
The First Octavo Notebook https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gD981HZ190BUJF-3czZNX3DsFWvqp3cq-Z4QS4d-9gw/edit?hl=en <br class="br">The Blue Octavo Notebooks (1954)
“The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.”
Herodotus (-484–-425 BC) ancient Greek historian, often considered as the first historian
The words of Socrates, as quoted by Diogenes Laertius.
Misattributed
“Sometimes I believe that evil is everything, and that good is only a beautiful desire for evil.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
A veces creo el mal es todo y que el bien es sólo un bello deseo del mal.
Voces (1943)
“Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.”
Alan Lightman book Einstein's Dreams
Source: Einstein's Dreams
“Find good in what the world says is evil.”
Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters
Source: Invisible Monsters