“The idea of morality is connected with the idea of good and evil conduct. But the idea of good and evil is always different for different people, always subjective in man number one, number two, and number three, and is connected only with a given moment or a given situation. A SUBJECTIVE MAN can have no general concept of good and evil. For a SUBJECTIVE MAN evil is everything that is opposed to his desires or interests or to his conception of good. Fragments: Eight

“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. Fragments: Eight

“It depends upon whose prayer,” said G. “The prayer of SUBJECTIVE MAN, that is, of man number one, number two, and number three, can give only subjective results, namely, self-consolation, self-suggestion, self-hypnosis. It cannot give objective results.” Fragments: Fifteen