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"About a 100 pages in. Interesting, scary, sad, depressing.
A bunch of people who think they are really smart"
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Erich Fromm
“Free man is by necessity insecure; thinking man by necessity uncertain.”
Erich Fromm

Søren Kierkegaard
“The majority of men in every generation, even those who, as it is described, devote themselves to thinking, live and die under the impression that life is simply a matter of understanding more and more, and that if it were granted to them to live longer, that life would continue to be one long continuous growth in understanding. How many of them ever experience the maturity of discovering that there comes a critical moment where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand more and more that there is something which cannot be understood.”
Søren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard

Sebastian Barry
“The years return us gradually to the afflictions and shames of childhood, it is a curiosity of existence.”
Sebastian Barry, Annie Dunne

Hannah Arendt
“In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. ... Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.”
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

Robert Henri
“What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.”
Robert Henri, The Art Spirit

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