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- A peculiar side of credulity is that it is often joined with a proneness to imposture. The association of believing and lying is not characteristic…
- There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto…
- Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that…
- It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the market place and…
- Both the revolutionary and the creative individual are perpetual juveniles. The revolutionary does not grow up because he cannot grow, while the creative individual cannot…
- People haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also…
- The chief burden of the frustrated is the consciousness of a blemished, ineffectual self, and their chief desire is to slough off the unwanted self…
- Nature attains perfection, but man never does. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. He is both an unfinished…
- We are unified both by hating in common and by being hated in common.
- The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to…
- When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.
- Both Faith and Terror are instruments for the elimination of individual self-respect. Terror crushes the autonomy of self-respect, where Faith obtains its more or less…
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- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike. — Dave Attell
- Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas… — Margaret Atwood
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila