“ For the evil can never be annulled, and consequently can never be balanced by the good which may exist along with it or after it. ”
Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation (1819). copy citation
| Author | Arthur Schopenhauer |
|---|---|
| Source | The World as Will and Representation |
| Topic | evil balance |
| Date | 1819 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | |
| Note | Translated by R. B. Haldane and J. Kemp |
| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40868/40868-h/40868-h.html |
Context
“I believe the balance will not be hard to strike. At bottom, however, it is quite superfluous to dispute whether there is more good or evil in the world: for the mere existence of evil decides the matter. For the evil can never be annulled, and consequently can never be balanced by the good which may exist along with it or after it.
“Mille piacer' non vagliono un tormento.”—Petr.
(A thousand pleasures are not worth one torment.) For that a thousand had lived in happiness and pleasure would never do away with the anguish and death-agony of a single one;”
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