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There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so. Are these words of Shakespeare,inspired by Marcus Aurelius, true?
The quote expresses the idea of a (morally) blank or neutral world which is colored in "good" or "bad" by our thinking.
Not sure you could call that "true" or "false&...
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There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so. Are these words of Shakespeare,inspired by Marcus Aurelius, true?
Answer is quite simple,
What Shakespeare said was fact. Good and Bad are relative terms. Nor there is universal measure of good or bad. They are result of our comparison or analysis, which is at the ...
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