posted December 07, 2007 05:09 PM         

See evil,
but not with the evil eye;
see murder, but dont see red.

See evil,
and understand it as such;
for that is to see good.

Hear evil,
and interpret it as such,
for that is to hear good.

Speak no evil,
but speak truthfully of evil,
for that is to speak good.

posted December 07, 2007 06:39 PM         

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Today "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" is commonly used to describe someone who doesn't want to be involved in a situation, or someone turning a willful blind eye to the immorality of an act in which they are involved.

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posted December 07, 2007 07:33 PM         

"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
— William Shakespeare

posted December 07, 2007 08:16 PM         

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"If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them.
But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.
And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?"
(Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)

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Hamlet: Look here, upon this picture, and on this;
The counterfeit presentment of two brothers.
See, what a grace was seated on this brow;
Hyperion’s curls, the front of Jove himself,
An eye like Mars, to threaten and command,
A station like the herald Mercury
New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill,
A combination and a form indeed,
Where every god did seem to set his seal,
To give the world assurance of a man.

This was your husband: look you now, what follows.
Here is your husband; like a mildew’d ear,
Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes?
Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed,
And batten on this moor? Ha! have you eyes?
You cannot call it love, for at your age
The hey-day in the blood is tame, it’s humble,
And waits upon the judgment; and what judgment
Would step from this to this? Sense, sure, you have,
Else could you not have motion; but sure, that sense
Is apoplex’d; for madness would not err,
Nor sense to ecstasy was ne’er so thrall’d
But it reserv’d some quantity of choice,
To serve in such a difference.

What devil was ’t
That thus hath cozen’d you at hoodman-blind?
Eyes without feeling, feeling without sight,
Ears without hands or eyes, smelling sans all,
Or but a sickly part of one true sense
Could not so mope.
O shame! where is thy blush? ....

Queen: O! speak to me no more;
These words like daggers enter in mine ears;
No more, sweet Hamlet!

Hamlet: A murderer, and a villain;
A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe
Of your precedent lord; a vice of kings;
A cut-purse of the empire and the rule,
That from a shelf the precious diadem stole,
And put it in his pocket!

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Queen: O Hamlet! thou hast cleft my heart in twain.

Hamlet: O! throw away the worser part of it,
And live the purer with the other half.

posted December 07, 2007 08:24 PM         

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"Even a good thing isn’t as good as nothing."
— Zen saying

posted December 07, 2007 08:35 PM         

A tendency to rely on the self so much as to alienate important others in our lives,... We are often afraid of the demands that a partner might put on us, and we don't naturally look for feedback, preferring to act on the moment—on our own hunches and impulses. But for however hard we push ourselves, our plans will be blocked until we stop to consider the other side. We tend to go it alone, often passing up opportunities for growth because we are too focused on our own personal survival. Our impulses and instincts are overloaded, lacking in perspective, and acting upon them will often bring us strife—that is, until we learn to look at the other side, perhaps through the eyes of another. Through partnership, and through cooperation with others, we will attain the inner balance necessary for us to achieve our goals.

posted December 07, 2007 08:41 PM         

"In the end one only experiences oneself."
— Nietzsche

posted December 08, 2007 06:57 PM         

Yes, thats a possibility.

But I'm not even convinced he was an anti-semite.

I think he had other, more significant, motives.

posted December 08, 2007 07:36 PM         

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But I'm not even convinced he was an anti-semite.

I think he had other, more significant, motives.

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