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We cannot afford such blindness to history and such naïveté
as to embrace the morality of the cool

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"We believe in ourselves as we do not believe in others. We permit all things to ourselves, and that which we call sin in others is experiment for us."

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"We cannot afford such blindness to history and such naiveté as to embrace the morality of the cool."

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What, then, is this unexpected and even inappropriate “greatness of soul,” summoned from nowhere to explain a particularly rare form of evil?

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...nothing suggests that this film sees around or beyond the horrible actions it portrays with the utmost cool. By depicting evil in this fashion neutralizes it—absorbs it into ordinary life, broken by a few thrills and laughs, and desensitizes us to evil

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"Elsewhere Pascal wrote insistently that man's greatness resides in his capacity to think: we are frail reeds, but reeds capable of thought"

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In each case evil has a strong presence, a perverse stature not reduced or redeemed by any other force in the story.

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this instant of mental voluptuousness stands for a reverse epiphany, a negative transcendence toward baseness and inhumanity.

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"Evil is not overcome. Evil is accepted and admired."

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Evil is easy. Its forms are infinite; good is almost unique.

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Let us beware of applying our intellects to condoning evil or to making ourselves into "splendidly wicked" people.

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"This instant of mental voluptuousness stands for a reverse epiphany, a negative transcendence toward baseness and inhumanity"

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"Toward the end of "Experience," one of his most skeptical and disillusioned essays, Emerson made a remarkable statement about evil: "We believe in ourselves as we do not believe in others. We permit all things to ourselves, and that which we call sin in others is experiment for us.

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"... each story obliges us to ponder an implied greatness of evil- its claim on our admiration as a dynamic element of reality- and an implied greatness in evil of certain

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And in each case evil has a strong presence, a preverse stature not reduced or redeemed by any other force in the story. Moreover, each story obliges us to ponder an implied greatness of evil -- it's claim on our admiration as a dynamic element of reality -- and an implied greatness in evil

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And in each case evil has a strong presence, a perverse stature not reduced or redeemed by any other force in the story.

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These three narratives cannot aspire to tragic or epic proportions. Their intimacy, combined with a certain mystery of the inexplicable, gives them the status of moral enigmas

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Write your favorite sentence or two from "When Evil is Cool