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"Once conform once do what others do because they do it and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul."
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"A 'normal person' is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being."
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"I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in the comparative ease with which laws can be stated, that this difference exists."
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"Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going."
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"Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your retirement party; then chewing on your bedsheet and choking on your canned peaches at the nursing home. It was better never to have been born-never to have wanted anything, never to have hoped for anything."
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"People like us are dead to society unless we're pretentious, tell people what they want to hear, take off our clothes, or pretend to be like them."
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"Who was I fooling, telling my heart to quiet its beautiful song so I could march in the parade of conformity? My biggest fool was me."
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"When things don't change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them."
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"Most people do not have a problem with you thinking for yourself, as long as your conclusions are the same as or at least compatible with their beliefs."
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"There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence."
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"Most people are as happy as other people decide they should be."
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"Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know."
Nothing
"From books all I seek is to give myself pleasure by an honourable pastime: or if I do study, I seek only that branch of learning which deals with knowing myself and which teaches me how to live and die well..."
Learning
"The clearest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness."
Joy
"A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens."
Perception
"Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves."
Mindfulness
"It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others."
Learning
"A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can."
Man
"No man is exempt from saying silly things, the mischief is to say them deliberately."
Behavior
"Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them."
Sports
"No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged."
Ethics
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