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"What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it."
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"Shame lies. All the time. About everything. Don't believe your shame."
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"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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"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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"Human brain is structured to avoid any kind of refutation of one's religious beliefs."
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"We are what we believe we are."
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"Man is more likely to believe an opinion that he wanted to hear - than a fact that he wishes was an opinion."
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"Are not the sane and the insane equal at night as the sane lie a dreaming?"
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"I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign."
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"Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons."
Life
"Faith which does not doubt is dead faith."
Faith
"What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it."
Psychology
"True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant."
Science
"Science is a cemetery of dead ideas."
Science
"The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule."
People
"Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion."
Love
"Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death."
Death
"Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning."
Art
"Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory."
Authority
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