Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.

It's wrong to anticipate evil.

If the devil doesn't exist... how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be?

The trouble with imaginative people is that we're good at picturing the worst that could happen to us. Fear is often just the imagination taking a wrong turn.

The trouble with him was that he was without imagination.

The knowledge of evil is inadequate knowledge

Ethics Book IV, proposition 64

Man's inability to understand and appreciate the thought and viewpoint of another man would be a stumbling block which no amount of mechanical ability could overcome.

We let what we know limit what we can imagine; the result, a failure of imagination.

The obstacle: for the improvement of the capacity for experience and use generally involves a decrease in man’s power to relate — that power which alone can enable man to live in the spirit.

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others

The trouble with imaginative people is that we’re good at picturing the worst that could happen to us.

When you see evil do not form ideas that are in the likeness of that evil; do not think of the evil as bad, but try to understand the forces that are back of that evil — forces that are good in themselves, though misdirected in their present state. By trying to understand the nature of the power that is back of evil or adversity, you will not form bad ideas, and therefore will feel no bad effects from experiences that may seem undesirable. At the same time, you will think your own thought about the experiences, thereby developing the power of the master mind.

There is a difficulty with only one person changing. People call that person a great saint or a great mystic or a great leader, and they say, 'Well, he's different from me - I could never do it.' What's wrong with most people is that they have this block - they feel they could never make a difference, and therefore, they never face the possibility, because it is too disturbing, too frightening.