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If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil. ↗

— Steven Saylor

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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil. ↗

— Georges Bataille

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The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. ↗

— Joyce Cary

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This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good. ↗

— Howard Dean

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I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be. ↗

— Charles Van Doren

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Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it. ↗

— Arthur E. Waite

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