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“Ethical decision is possible only when one is conscious of the conflict in all its aspects.”
― Carl Jung, Symbols of Transformation

tags: ethics, psychology-of-religion

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“The comic effect of the satire is derived from the simultaneous presence, in the reader's mind, of the social reality with which he is familiar, and of its reflections in the distorting mirror of the satirist. It focuses attention on abuses and deformities in society of which, blunted by habit, we were no longer aware; it makes us suddenly discover the absurdity of the familiar and the familiarity of the absurd.”
― Arthur Koestler, The Act of Creation

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“It is way more pleasurable to master yourself than it is to masturbate.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: asceticism, discipline, grit, mastery, self-control, self-discipline, self-mastery, self-restraint, stoicism, willpower

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“Believe it possible that you can float off the ground and fly by merely willing it. See what happens.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Prometheus Rising

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“The satirist's most effective weapon is irony. Its aim is to defeat the opponent on his own ground by pretending to accept his premises, his values, his methods of reasoning, in order to expose their implicit absurdity. 'All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.' Irony purports to take seriously what it does not; it enters into the spirit of the other person's game to demonstrate that its rules are stupid or vicious. It is a subtle weapon, because the person who wields it must have the imaginative power of seeing through the eyes of his opponent, of projecting himself into the other's mental world.”
― Arthur Koestler, The Act of Creation

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