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#1

“Longed for him. Got him. Shit.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: disappointment, marriage

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#2

“During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”
― Nelson Mandela

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#3

“As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. … That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life… Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind.”
― Anthony de Mello

tags: awakening, ideology, meaning-of-life, spirituality

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#4

“A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.”
― Terry Eagleton, Ideology: An Introduction

tags: ideology, politics, socialism

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#5

“as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology

tags: discourse, fiction, ideology, imaginary, philosophy, real, symbolic

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#6

“All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.”
― Clive James

tags: corruption, ideology, politics, power

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#7

“Truth cannot be constructed. To live in ideology is, as Havel so eloquently reminds us, inevitably to live in a lie. Truth can only be revealed. We cannot be creators, only receptors.”
― James W. Sire

tags: ideology, revelation, truth

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#8

“But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much lashing of themselves into excitement, to lose sight of the obvious.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Are Women Human? Penetrating, Sensible and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

tags: fanatic, ideology, movements, obvious

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#9

“The theistic philosopher has a tendency to devalue insufficient worldviews, ideologies, and quite often common sense for the greater good, and in such cases, one should not be discouraged when seen as a bad guy. If he stresses over man's perception of a righteous heart, then he has given his heart to man.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: antagonist, anti-hero, antihero, apologetics, bad, challenge, common-sense, devalue, discourage, god, good, greater-good, heart, hero, ideology, insufficient, man, misunderstood, negative, negativity, perception, philosophers, philosophy, positive, positivity, protagonist, righteous, righteousness, stand-up, stress, sufficient, theism, theology, truth, ultimate, value, villain, worldview

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#10

“...the years have taught me not to wonder too much at the dark things men do. Strange how it is that men never act crueller than when they're fighting for the sake of an idea. We've been killing since Cain over who stands closer to god. It seems to me that cruelty is just in the way of things. You drive yourself mad if you take it all personal. Those who hurt you don't have the power over you they would like. That's why they do what they do. And I'm not going to give them the power now. But it was a cruel thing that they did, and when they had finished hurting me, a splinter of loneliness seemed to break off and stay inside me forever.”
― Marcel Theroux, Far North

tags: cruelty, hurt, ideology, men

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#11

“Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a secular Ideology (Ideologies are the modern form of Faiths) and just stopped thinking.”
― Robert Anton Wilson

tags: ideology, people, religion, self-consciousness

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#12

“To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical.”
― Georges Canguilhem, Ideology and Rationality in the History of the Life Sciences

tags: error, ideology, science

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#13

“I honestly do not know if love vanquishes death as our traditional faiths teach but I do know that our vulnerabilities trump our ideologies and that love leavens the purity and logic of our beliefs propelling us to connect as the fiercely gracious human beings we are.”
― Irwin Kula

tags: belief, faith, humanity, ideology, vulnerability

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#14

“Christians should never have a political party. It is a huge mistake to become married to an ideology, because the greatest enemy of the gospel is ideology. Ideology is a man-made format of how the world ought to work, and Christians instead believed in the revealing truth Scripture.”
― Charles Colson

tags: ideology, party, politics

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#15

“In public affairs men are often better pleased that the truth, though known to everybody, should be wrapped up under a decent cover than if it were exposed in open daylight to the eyes of all the world.”
― David Hume, The History of England 1

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#16

“In my experience ideology is a lot like religion; it's a belief system and most people cling to it long after it becomes clear that their ideology doesn't describe the real world.”
― Maureen F. McHugh

tags: china-mountain-zhang, ideology, religion

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#17

“War is fought over futile and feudal things. War is not about ideology, no matter how artfully framed, but it’s simply about power and money and control.”
― Jarod Kintz, The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.

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#18

“Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.”
― John Rawls, Justice as Fairness: A Restatement

tags: ideology, philosophy, politics

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#19

“«…you’re too old not to have had, how shall I say, certain experiences. You’ve had bad internet dates. You’ve had people be creeps to you. You’ve seen what you’ve seen; you’ve felt what you’ve felt. Ideology is for people who don’t trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world»

«I feel like I am going mad»

«Madness is actually quite rare in individuals. It’s groups of people who go mad. Countries, cults ... religions»”
― Douglas Coupland

tags: generation-a, ideology, madness

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#20

“Ideological conformity depends on conditions of prosperity; it has no staying-power of its own.”
― Paul Mattick

tags: conformity, ideology

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#22

“What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?”
― Soren Kierkegaard

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#23

“I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt my face and it was dry.

Then I looked at the window and thought: Why, yes, it's just the rain, the rain, always the rain, and turned over, sadder still, and fumbled about for my dripping sleep and tried to slip it back on.”
― Ray Bradbury, Green Shadows, White Whale

tags: melancholy, rain, sadness, sleep

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#24

“Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.”
― Victor Hugo

tags: melancholy, pleasure, sad, sorrow

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#25

“Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.”
― Italo Calvino

tags: melancholy

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#26

“For some nights I slept profoundly; but still every morning I felt the same lassitude, and a languor weighed upon me all day. I felt myself a changed girl. A strange melancholy was stealing over me, a melancholy that I would not have interrupted. Dim thoughts of death began to open, and an idea that I was slowly sinking took gentle, and, somehow, not unwelcome possession of me. If it was sad, the tone of mind which this induced was also sweet. Whatever it might be, my soul acquiesced in it.”
― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

tags: depression, melancholy

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#27

“Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart;
My silent heart, lie still and break:
Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed
For a dream's sake.”
― Christina Rossetti

tags: melancholy, sadness

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#28

“That's most interesting. But I was no more a mind-reader then than today. I
was weeping for an altogether different reason. When I watched you dancing that day, I saw something else. I saw a new world coming rapidly. More
scientific, efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses. Very good. But a
harsh, cruel world. And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind world, one that she knew in her heart could not
remain, and she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go. That is what I saw. It wasn't really you, what you were doing, I know that. But I saw you and it broke my heart. And I've never forgotten.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

tags: children, coldness, cruelty, dancing, future, heartbreak, innocence, life, melancholy, nostalgia, sadness

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#29

“Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.”
― Remy de Gourmont

tags: autumn, fall, melancholy

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#30

“Mostly a’s: You are an Avoidant Misanthrope. You are the patron saint of the locked door and turned-off phone. Like a big tit in a strapless bra, if there’s a way out, you’ll find it.”
― Meghan Rowland, The Misanthrope's Guide to Life:

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#31

“The Misanthrope’s Prayer Lord, grant me the irritability to deal with those people I cannot avoid, the flight-reflex to avoid those people I can, and the impatience to get it all over with quickly.”
― Meghan Rowland, The Misanthrope's Guide to Life:

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