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  • #271
    C.G. Jung
    “The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
    Carl Gustav Jung

  • #272
    C.G. Jung
    “Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.”
    Carl Gustav Jung

  • #273
    Charles Dickens
    “A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”
    Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

  • #274
    C.G. Jung
    “The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. ”
    Carl Gustav Jung

  • #275
    Wilhelm Reich
    “The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary. ”
    Wilhelm Reich

  • #276
    Gore Vidal
    “The unfed mind devours itself.”
    Gore Vidal

  • #277
    Gore Vidal
    “As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.”
    Gore Vidal

  • #278
    Gore Vidal
    “Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. ”
    Gore Vidal

  • #279
    Gore Vidal
    “Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race.”
    Gore Vidal

  • #280
    Gore Vidal
    “Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.”
    Gore Vidal, Julian

  • #281
    Gore Vidal
    “We are given our place in time as we are given our eyes: weak, strong, clear, squinting, the thing is not ours to choose. Well, this has been a squinting, walleyed time to be born in.”
    Gore Vidal, Julian

  • #282
    Gore Vidal
    “I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place”
    Gore Vidal

  • #283
    Erich Fromm
    “Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. 'Patriotism' is its cult...Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.”
    Erich Fromm

  • #284
    Erich Fromm
    “Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.”
    Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

  • #285
    Albert Schweitzer
    “Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”
    Albert Schweitzer

  • #286
    Albert Schweitzer
    “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
    Albert Schweitzer

  • #287
    Albert Schweitzer
    “Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.”
    Albert Schweitzer

  • #288
    Albert Schweitzer
    “Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.”
    Albert Schweitzer

  • #289
    Albert Schweitzer
    “In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”
    Albert Schweitzer

  • #290
    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.”
    rabindranath tagore

  • #291
    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,
    but to be fearless in facing them.

    Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but
    for the heart to conquer it.”
    Rabindranath Tagore, Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore

  • #292
    Rabindranath Tagore
    “By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”
    Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

  • #293
    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Men are cruel, but Man is kind. ”
    Rabindranath Tagore

  • #294
    Rabindranath Tagore
    “We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.”
    Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

  • #295
    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live. ”
    Rabindranath Tagore

  • #296
    Chris Hedges
    “Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.”
    Chris Hedges

  • #297
    Harlan Ellison
    “You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
    Harlan Ellison

  • #298
    Harlan Ellison
    “I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned.
    Adult. You have become adult.”
    Harlan Ellison, Paingod and Other Delusions

  • #299
    Harlan Ellison
    “The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.”
    Harlan Ellison

  • #300
    Harlan Ellison
    “Like a wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we were, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.”
    Harlan Ellison



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