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12. “As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy.”
George R. R. Martin
Good and Evil, Complex Characters, Love, Hate, Writing, Morality
13. “You have no choice about your capacity to feel that something is good for you or evil, but what you will consider good or evil, what will give you joy or pain, what you will love or hate, desire or fear, depends on your standard of value.” Ayn Rand Good and Evil, Emotions, Choice, Values, Desire, Morality
14. “For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a state.” Aristotle Human Perception, Good and Evil, Social Ethics, State Formation, Moral Awareness
16. “May we not say that the most gifted minds, when they are ill-educated, become pre-eminently bad? Do not great crimes and the spirit of pure evil spring out of a fullness of nature ruined by education rather than from any inferiority whereas weak natures are scarcely capable of any very great good or very great evil?” Plato Gifted Minds And Education, Good And Evil, Human Nature, Philosophical Insight, Moral Reflection
17. “Then not he who does evil, but he who does good, is temperate? Yes, he said; and you, friend, would agree. No matter whether I should or not; just now, not what I think, but what you are saying, is the point at issue. Well, he answered; I mean to say, that he who does evil, and not good, is not temperate; and that he is temperate who does good, and not evil: for temperance I define in plain words to be the doing of good actions.” Plato Temperance And Goodness, Moral Philosophy, Ethical Actions, Good And Evil, Virtuous Living
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12. “As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy.”
George R. R. Martin Good and Evil, Complex Characters, Love, Hate, Writing, Morality
13. “You have no choice about your capacity to feel that something is good for you or evil, but what you will consider good or evil, what will give you joy or pain, what you will love or hate, desire or fear, depends on your standard of value.”
Ayn Rand Good and Evil, Emotions, Choice, Values, Desire, Morality
14. “For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a state.”
Aristotle Human Perception, Good and Evil, Social Ethics, State Formation, Moral Awareness
16. “May we not say that the most gifted minds, when they are ill-educated, become pre-eminently bad? Do not great crimes and the spirit of pure evil spring out of a fullness of nature ruined by education rather than from any inferiority whereas weak natures are scarcely capable of any very great good or very great evil?”
Plato Gifted Minds And Education, Good And Evil, Human Nature, Philosophical Insight, Moral Reflection
17. “Then not he who does evil, but he who does good, is temperate? Yes, he said; and you, friend, would agree. No matter whether I should or not; just now, not what I think, but what you are saying, is the point at issue. Well, he answered; I mean to say, that he who does evil, and not good, is not temperate; and that he is temperate who does good, and not evil: for temperance I define in plain words to be the doing of good actions.”
Plato Temperance And Goodness, Moral Philosophy, Ethical Actions, Good And Evil, Virtuous Living
