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"A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him."
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"Almost every single thing you hope publication will do for you is a fantasy, a hologram--it's the eagle on your credit card that only seems to soar."
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Personal Development
"Most worldly goals for so-called success are soul traps similar to quicksand."
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Personal Development
"For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. Somewhere they live, somewhere they multiply. I alone do not exist."
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Personal Development
"Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality."
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Personal Development
"Forever' is an illusion that human beings promise each other when they are horny, or, trying to appear holy."
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Personal Development
"Whoever thirst for money is real victim of a capital illusion."
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Personal Development
"All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But their failure is ours, too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped to create... a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody-or at least some force-is tending that Light at the end of the tunnel.This is the same cruel and paradoxically benevolent bullshit has kept the Catholic Church going for so many centuries. It is also the military ethic...a blind faith in some higher and wiser "authority. The Pope, The General, The Prime Minister... all the way up to "God."
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Personal Development
"Illusion means to weigh right and wrong with the same scale."
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Personal Development
"Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself."
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Personal Development
"If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered."
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"Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population."
Time
"A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves."
Age
"A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative."
Language
"It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection."
Communication
"English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science."
Science
"The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of connotation is, of course, no criticism of the idea of a constructed language."
Inferiority
"Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science."
Science
"The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which is logically defensible at every point and which tends to correspond to the rigorous spirit of modern science."
Science
"A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him."
Illusion
"More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment."
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