Clarissa Pinkola Estes Quotes

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

It's a disease we have that we think that everything is explainable. It's a merchandising idea because you can sell explanations and cures for everything, but it doesn't work like that. It's very hard to understand everything.

Don't stigmatize in a rush to explain inexplicable evil.

Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

Who isn't fascinated by evil?

It's as simple as something that nobody knows.

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

Evil is relative - and what I mean by that is that our villains are as complex, as deep and as compelling as any of our heroes. Every antagonist in the DC Universe has a unique darkness, desire and drive. And the reason for being of 'Forever Evil' is to explore that darkness.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.

We care less about situations that are complex, difficult to tell and difficult to understand.

What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.

That's the thing about dreams - they're ineffable. If you can get to the bottom of it, it's not a dream.

Human beings are capable of great good, but also of the basest evil.

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

Some things are beyond human understanding.

Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.

If not reason, then the devil.