A Quote by Charles Caleb Colton
There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary.
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Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
Real evils can be either cured or endured; it is only imaginary evils that make people anxiety-ridden for a lifetime.
Actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real, while you preachers too often speak of things real as if they were imaginary.
Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its imaginary descent, stepped out onto the real first floor and raced a real problem. Her mother and father were leaving for Parents' Night.
There are in life real evils enough, and it is folly to afflict ourselves with imaginary ones; it is time enough when the real ones arrive.
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
The poet Marianne Moore famously wrote of 'real toads in imaginary gardens,' and the labyrinth offers us the possibility of being real creatures in symbolic space...In such spaces as the labyrinth we cross over [between real and imaginary spaces]; we are really travelling, even if the destination is only symbolic.
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
When real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too.
When great evils happen, I am in the habit of looking out for what good may arise from them as consolations to us, and Providence has in fact so established the order of things, as that most evils are the means of producing some good.
The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.
You want us to be like good Germans, supporting the evils of our decade and then when we refused to be good Germans and came to Chicago and demonstrated, now you want us to be like good Jews, going quietly and politely to the concentration camps while you and this court suppress freedom and the truth. And the fact is I am not prepared to do that.
The end of despots is always odd?exhilarating to those who suffered their tyrannies, and to those who hold despotism in contempt, and anti-climatic at the same time, the discovery that these tyrants were petty, frightened men after all.
True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection of causes, with a view to determining what is good or bad for us in the present, is rather imaginary than real.
Imaginary evils are incurable.
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