{"text":"The origin of wickedness is the cliff upon which theism, just as much as pantheism, is wrecked; for both imply optimism. However, evil and sin, both in their terrible magnitude, cannot be disavowed; indeed, because of the promised punishments for the latter, the former is only further increased. Whence all this, in a world that is either itself a God or the well-intentioned work of a God?","author":"Arthur Schopenhauer","tags":["evil","pantheism","sin","theism"],"id":2054,"author_id":"Arthur+Schopenhauer"}