Until we can understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves.
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No one forgets the truth – they just get better at lying.
...it is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself.
The man in ecstasy and the man drowning — both throw up their arms
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
It’s easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
I think there’s a big difference between being a bad person and being bad at being a person.
The human form is a microcosm of the universe. All that supposedly exists outside us in reality exists in us. The world is in you and can become known in you, as you.
No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you’re not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
Man, as we say, is a tame or civilized animal; nevertheless, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
— Plato, amazon.com
Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capable only of fractured perceptions.
Some people are weak in some ways, sir. Others in other ways.
The consequence of this is that I’m always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both.
There are four basic human needs: food, sleep, sex and revenge.
— banksy, amazon.com
It seems to me that the central definition of zombie-ness is not slow shuffling movements or even reanimation or cannibalism. It seems to me that the central difference between zombies and the rest of us is that zombies just walk around doing whatever they have to do to continue walking around. What…
Sometimes, it's best to sit in traffic and stare and think does that guy really love Holland Oats that much?
I suspect most of us, deep down, would rather be interesting than happy. I know I would.
Though they can be, strangers aren’t always strange. They’re often just people, a lot like you.
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