Herbert Spencer Quotes

There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.

Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen.

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.

Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

President Bush should learn to focus on the shades of grey

I'm sick of having an opinion on everything. Getting older, you learn all sorts of things you're supposed to, but I feel like it's time, when you get older, through experience, to... I started to feel quite... what's the word? ... intimidated by seeing both sides of everything.

For everything that you find dreadful, there's usually something that is rather marvelous as well.

You have to laugh at things in order to let them be what they truly are. Because nothing is only sad. Nothing is only funny. There's context to all of those things.

I know that there's pros and cons to everything.

I think it's common to want to label things as all good or all bad and what I'm finding is that every situation, person, event, has good and bad in it.

I think we all ought to be careful about too much generalization on this issue, even as I confess to painting with a pretty broad brush myself!

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice. Where is the skillful swordsman who can give clean wounds, and not rip up his work with the other edge?

To deny the darkness of the soul is to be but half a human being. But we had both sides.

Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.

There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

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

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

Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries.

There is no light without shadow, and no psychic wholeness without imperfection.

That there is a secret itself is a secret.

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

There was much to hate in this world and too much to love.

There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.

Life is everything and nothing all at once.

Man must become better and more evil.