Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes

A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil.

So much good, so much evil. Just add water.

Everything in life is gray, you know.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Anytime there's a God, there has to be a devil. And anytime there's good, there has to be evil. And the evil sometimes is the best!

There is nothing in nature wherein there is not good and evil; everything moveth and liveth in this double impulse, working or operation, be it what it will.

People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.

I think that evil is a spiritual engine in our world, our lives, our universe, that functions in order to create good.

A light here required a shadow there.

With each victory of the light, it is the dark that wins.

The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

Even in art, there is no light without shadows, and no shadows are cast without some light. Even the shadow of Adolf Hitler is accompanied by some light.

You can't have good without evil, pleasure without pain, and so on.

wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.

You pronounced your words as if you don’t acknowledge the shadows, or the evil either. Would you be so kind as to give a little thought to the question of what your good would be doing if evil did not exist, and how the earth would look if the shadows were to disappear from it?

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Alas for him who seeks salvation in good only! Balanced on God's strong shoulders, Good and Evil flap together like two mighty wings and lift him high.

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

To know one thing, you must know the opposite.

Every side of a coin has another side.

Water is good, but if you have too much, you drown. So is water bad, or is it good? It's both.

A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest.

Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.