“Virtue is imaginative. Evil, repetitive.”
“There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.”
“Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.”
“Evil was seductive and easy, and virtue was difficult and unappreciated.”
“All conscious nature has experiences of pleasure and pain. Man alone can deliberately will the repetition of an experience. And repetition, experienced as such, is at the heart, for good and evil, of his faculty of reasoning, and thus makes possible his language, his art, his morality, and indeed his humanity. Yet it is the enemy of life, for repetition is itself the principle, not of life but of mechanism.”
“black evil is outlined clearest to our eyes by the blaze of virtue”