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- To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief from the burdens…
- We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something…
- Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.
- We can never have enough of that which we do not want.
- Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter.…
- Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then…
- When the weak want to give an impression of strength they hint menacingly at their capacity for evil. It is by its promise of a…
- Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. One often obtains a clue to…
- The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.
- The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn…
- Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we…
- Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.
- Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.
- I want to be remebered for the smile I gave them when they couldnt find there own. For the happieness that they needed a little…
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