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"People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive."
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"Nothing humbles a beautiful woman better than not being wanted by a man whose girlfriend or wife is ugly (or not as beautiful as she is)."
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Personal Development
"Indoctrination is not just demeaning to the human conscience, it is lethal for the flourishing psychology of the hungry, young mind."
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Personal Development
"Shame lies. All the time. About everything. Don't believe your shame."
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Personal Development
"I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones of the Super-men. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums."
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"Nothing will ever be solved if we wallow in the darkness of denial."
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"If you really do put a small value upon yourself rest assured that the world will not raise your price."
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"When the river of emotions bursts its banks and expectations go over the edges of reality, the brain creates hallucinations. Ringxiety-stricken people feel illusive vibrating alerts and hear phantom phone rings, since absence of ringing generates scaring emptiness and destroys their self-esteem. ['Kein Schwein ruft mich an']"
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"Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other."
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"[If a man] postpone[s] any open acknowledgement... that his own faith is in direct opposition to the assumptions on which all the conversation of his new friends [are] based... he will be in a false position. He will be silent when he ought to speak and laugh when he ought to be silent. He will assume, at first only by his manner, but presently by his words, all sorts of cynical and sceptical attitudes which are not really his. But... they may become his. All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be."
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"I was living for one thing only, and that was to confirm my own lack of feeling."
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"Men blaspheme what they do not know."
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"Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong."
Philosophy
"When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before."
Love
"There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration."
Philosophy
"Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them."
Faith
"The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason."
Wisdom
"The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason."
Philosophy
"As we are always preparing to be happy it is inevitable that we should never be so."
Happiness
"Knowing God without knowing our wretchedness leads to pride. Knowing our wretchedness without knowing God leads to despair. Knowing Jesus Christ is the middle course, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness."
Faith
"If a soldier or labourer complains of the hardship of his lot set him to do nothing."
Life
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