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#1

“The real debate about both the horrific inequality in the world and about the terrorism and frightening instability in the world requires analysis of the differences in upset-adaption or alienation-from-soul between individuals, races, genders, generations, countries, civilisations and cultures, but until the human condition could be explained and the upset state of the human condition compassionately understood and thus defended that debate could not take place.”
― Jeremy Griffith

tags: alienation-versus-humanity, civilisation, culture, future, human-condition, inequality, instability, jeremy-griffith, terrorism

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#2

“When the hypocrisy of life appears we often fail to recognise it or the question it raises”
― Jeremy Griffith

tags: hypocrisy, hyprocritical, jeremy-griffith

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#3

“While religions could not liberate humans from the agony of the human condition…they did provide an invaluable way to withdraw from the brink of madness”
― Jeremy Griffith

tags: jeremy-griffith, religion, religious-faith

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#4

“Men and women fall in love abandoning reality in favour of the dream”
― Jeremy Griffith

tags: biology, jeremy-griffith, love, men, quote, sexes, women

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#5

“The increasingly thoughtful child can see the whole horribly upset world and would be understandably totally bewildered and deeply troubled by it”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

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#6

“Throughout history we humans have struggled to find meaning in the awesome contradiction of our human condition. Neither philosophy, nor psychology nor biology has, until now, been able to provide the truthful explanation.”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

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#7

“Imagine if all the car makers in the world were to sit down together to design one extremely simple, embellishment-free, functional car that was made from the most environmentally-sustainable materials, how cheap to buy and humanity-and-Earth-considerate that vehicle would be. And imagine all the money that would be saved by not having different car makers duplicating their efforts, competing and trying to out-sell each other, and overall how much time that would liberate for all those people involved in the car industry to help those less fortunate and suffering in the world. Likewise, imagine when each house is no longer designed to make an individualised, ego-reinforcing, status-symbol statement for its owners and all houses are constructed in a functionally satisfactory, simple way, how much energy, labour, time and expense will be freed up to care for the wellbeing of the less fortunate and the planet.”
― Jeremy Griffith

tags: capitalism, car, future-inspirational, hope, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, leadership-speech, materialism, materialism-versus-spiritualism, soul

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#8

“Until the human condition could be resolved it was not safe to acknowledge the different roles men and women played in the journey to enlightenment. Over time it was found that the best way to control prejudices was to prevent acknowledgement of any substantial differences between the sexes. The dogma of politically correct culture emerged.”
― Jeremy Griffith, A Species in Denial

tags: a-species-in-denial, dogma, human-condition, men-and-women, political-correct-crap, politically-correct-culture, prejudices

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#9

“Since science and religion provide two different perspectives on the human situation, they must ultimately be able to be reconciled.”
― Jeremy Griffith, Beyond the Human Condition

tags: jeremy-griffith, reconciliation, reconciliation-of-opposites, religion, religion-and-philoshophy, science, science-and-religion, science-vs-religion

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#10

“The truth is, the hypocrisy of humans is everywhere”
― Jeremy Griffith

tags: humans, hypocrisy, hyprocritical, jeremy-griffith

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#11

“What's needed on Earth is love of the dark side of ourselves”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

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#12

“When the human condition is finally demystified, human insecurity and nervousness will be at a maximum…for this ultimate enlightenment to be allowed, society is going to have to adhere scrupulously to the democratic principle of freedom of expression.”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

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#13

“While religious assurances such as 'God loves you' could comfort us, we ultimately had to understand why we are loveable”
― Jeremy Griffith, A Species in Denial

tags: god-loves-you, jeremy-griffith, loveable, religion, religious-beliefs

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#14

“If you want to save the snow leopard, or the giant Redwoods, or the Okavango delta, or the Amazon, or the atmosphere, or the Earth, or those you love, or yourself, or the human race, this is the only path that can achieve that–so the truth is the sooner you support and adopt this path of transformation through understanding the better. The choice is self-destruction or self-discovery.”
― Jeremy Griffith

tags: amazon, amazon-river, earth, environment, environmentalism, jeremy-griffith, okavango-delta, redwoods, self-destruction, self-discovery, snow-leopard, transformation

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#15

“It is time to climb the mountains of our mind”
― Tim Macartney-Snape

tags: inspirational, inspriational-awesome, inspriational-quotes, jeremy-griffith, psychology, tim-macartney-snape

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#16

“What I’m suggesting is that the essence of leadership is soundness and that the essence of soundness is soul, which paradoxical as you might think it is, is that child within.”
― Tim Macartney-Snape

tags: child-within, childhood, leadership, soul, soundness, tim-macartney-snape

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#17

“It requires more toughness to resist the world than to join in the rat-race”
― Sir James Darling

tags: james-darling, james-ralph-darling, rat-race, sir-james-darling

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#18

“If there is to be any hope for the world, indeed if you really want to find satisfaction and happiness in your life, you must regard the return you will receive as a secondary consideration, if a consideration at all ……seek money first and you will ruin your land, or betray your profession…”
― Sir James Darling

tags: courage, inspiring, james-darling, james-ralph-darling, leadership, money-not-happiness, selfishness, sir-james-darling

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#19

“We need in this generation, as we have had them in the past, men of conscience, driven, even against their wills, certainly against their own interest, to take a stand for principles. Men not afraid of facing unpleasant facts, not afraid of being different in their views from other people, men who cannot rest so long as opportunities remain to work for the really great human objectives–peace, justice, honesty and decency between men.”
― Sir James Darling

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#20

“As always, an educated woman was a dangerous woman.”
― Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra: A Life

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#21

“But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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#22

“No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.”
― Victor Hugo

tags: ideas

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#23

“The very essence of Australia is our lack of sophistication–our refusal to conform to pretension and superficiality. We ought to be upholding our ‘fair-dinkumness’ and all the qualities so well documented in our folklore, the non-conformity of the swagman in Waltzing Matilda whose down to earth motto would I’m sure, have been ‘I’d rather be ignorant and fair dinkum than sophisticated and false’. Of course life has been a fight against ignorance, but the danger has always been that gaining knowledge rarely occurs without an increase in sophistication or falseness.”
― Tim Macartney-Snape

tags: aussie, aussie-humour, australia, australian, australians, fair-dinkum, falsehood, non-conformity, prevention, sophistication, superficiality, swagman, waltzing-matilda

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#24

“It takes strong, sound leadership, that correspondingly rare commodity, which is afflicted with neither an excess of pity nor callousness, to stand against the insipid tide of superficiality that is sweeping the world.”
― Tim Macartney-Snape

tags: leadership, rare-personalities, strength, strength-of-character, strength-of-spirit

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#25

“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: beauty, wonder, young-at-heart, youth, youthfulness

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#26

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: books, castle, self

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#27

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
― Joseph Campbell

tags: cave, fear

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#28

“Pseudo idealism: apparent charitable behaviour that on scrutiny is revealed as selfish, because the giver is engaging in it only so that he or she can feel good about him or herself”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

tags: feel-good, human-condition, jeremy-griffith, pseudo, pseudoidealism, selfishness

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#29

“We all intuitively know that a mother's love is crucial to the creation of a well-adjusted human and that we are all born with an instinctive expectation of receiving unconditionally selfless love from our mother.”
― Jeremy Griffith

tags: human-condition, jeremy-griffith, love, mother, mothers-love, unconditional-love-quotes

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#30

“Mother's love created our awe-inspiring moral sense”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

tags: freedom, jeremy-griffith, love, mother, mothers-love, nurturing, unconditional-love

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