Coventry Patmore Quotes

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.

Good and evil lay side by side.

Good and Evil are very hard to explain or understand. I'm sure that evil exists, but it is hard to isolate. Good and evil are intertwined and impossible to separate. They are not completely opposites and in fact are often one and the same.

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn't let it think it had the right-of-way on the road and an invitation to dinner.

Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!

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

We cannot expect to be happy always ... by experiencing evil as well as good we become wise.

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

A master sees the bad in the good, and the good in the bad.

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful.

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

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.

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.

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.

Appearances frequently deceive us, and what at first sight carries with it the face of good proves to be a real evil, whilst an apparent evil oftentimes conceals an extraordinary good

If this isn’t good versus evil, what is?

There is one thing that is only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.

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