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“All we can do is work and go on working Happiness is for our remote descendants.”

“Even a thousand years from now people will sigh ‘Life is hard,’ and yet be as frightened of death and unwilling to die as we are.”

“You say that life seems beautiful? Yes, but what if it no more than seems so?”

“You’re always saying people don’t create anything; they only destroy what God has given them. Then why, oh why, are you so bent on destroying yourself? Don’t, don’t. Please don’t. I bet if you.”

“The transmutation of pain into power is a feature of all musical genres and indeed all forms of art.”

“For love makes everyone blind, as simpering court storytellers are forever fond of intoning, quite as if blindness were a happy circumstance in which we all lo my to share.”

“We don’t have free will, but we can be a bit more free from the tyranny of our will. Humans usually place so much importance on their desires that they try to control and shape the entire world according to these desires.”

“Of all rituals, sacrifice is the most potent, because of all things in the world, suffering is the most real. You can never ignore it or doubt it. If you want to make people really believe in some fiction, entice them to make a sacrifice in its behalf. Once you suffer for a story, it is usually enough to convince you that the story is real.”

“As a species, humans prefer power to truth. We spend far more time and effort on trying to control the world than on trying to understand it - and even when we try to understand it, we usually do so in the hope that understanding the world will make it easier to control it.”

“The truth is that they’re was never higher on the agenda of Homo Sapiens.”

“What gave Homo Sapiens an edge over all other animals and turned us into the masters of the planet was not our individual rationality but our unparalleled ability to think together in large groups.”

“Every religion, ideology, and creed has its shadows and no matter which creed you follow you should acknowledge you shadow and avoid the naive reassurance that ‘it cannot happen to us’.”

“Questions you cannot answer are usually far better for you than answers you cannot question.”

“Emotions such as greed, envy, anger and hatred are very unpleasant. You cannot experience joy and harmony when you are boiling with anger or envy. Long before you murder anyone, your anger has already killed your own peace of mind.”

“The idea that we need a supernatural being to make us act morally assumes that there is something unnatural about morality. But why? Morality of some kind is natural.”

“The world would be a much better place if we followed the third commandment more devotedly. You want to wage war on your neighbors and steal their land? Leave God out of it and find yourself some other excuse.”

“People always tell you to smile when you are having your photograph taken, but sometimes that is just too much to ask.”

“She had drifted into something, in the way in which we are capable of drifting into things, without any conscious assertion of will, any firm choice, because it is easy and we feel sorry for people and we cannot find a simple way of avoiding their emotional claims.”

“If David and Bruce were asked whether they were happy, both would have replied yes, they were, although there might have been a moment’s hesitation before that reply was given. But if you have to hesitate for only a moment in considering that question, then you are probably happy enough, which is as much as most of us can expect.”

“Obscurity is quick, and tactful; it keeps a straight face if it overhears our hopes of being remembered, but it knows better.”

“Humans are used to thinking about life as a drama of decision-making.”

“If the feelings of some ancient ancestor were wrong and as a result that person made a fatal mistake, the genes shaping these feelings did not pass on to the next generation. Feelings are therefore not the opposite of rationality - they embody evolutionary rationality.”

“If you really want to be selfish, be selfish in the idea of retaining your peace.”

“By seeing others happy, you can’t be unhappy. But by making everybody unhappy, you can never be happy yourself.”

“Humans think in stories rather than in facts, numbers, or equations, and the simpler the story, the better. Every person, group, and nation has its own tales and myths.”

“I thought liberty and peace
/ Are / a substitute to happiness! God mine!
How I / was / mistaken, how punished!”

“I feel like I was born ages ago. I drag my life after me like a gown with an endless train”

“In making light of my apology, she’s refusing to play the victim, to seem in the least bit tragic. And why not? Who are we, after all, if not the author of our own story?”

“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”