Evil denotes the lack of good. Not every absence of good is an evil, for absence may be taken either in a purely negative or in a ...privative sense. Mere negation does not display the character of evil, otherwise nonexistents would be evil and moreover, a thing would be evil for not possessing the goodness of something else, which would mean that man is bad for not having the strength of a lion or the speed of a wild goat. But what is evil is privation; in this sense blindness means the privation of sight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I...'ve no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »