One may say that evil does not exist for subjective man at all, that there exist only different conceptions of good.
Nobody ever does anything deliberately in the interests of evil, for the sake of evil. Everybody acts in the interests of good,
as he understands it. But everybody understands it in a different way. Consequently men drown, slay, and kill one another in the interests of good. The reason is again just the same, men's ignorance and the deep sleep in which they live.
This is so obvious that it even seems strange that people have never thought of it before. However, the fact remains that they fail to understand this and everyone considers his good as the only good and all the rest as evil. It is naive and useless to hope that men will ever understand this and that they will evolve a general and
identical idea of good.
In Search Of The Miraculous (Chapter Eight)
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