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“A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest form of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying — to others and to yourself.”
The Karamazov Brothers • Fyodor Dostoevski“Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality.”
Marriage as a Psychological Relationship • Carl Gustav Jung“ “Our bodies may be extensions of our words. But they can neither replace nor refute them.””
Samarkand • Amin Maalouf“People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental/population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!"”
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed • Jared Diamond“Religious values tend to be especially deeply held and hence frequent cause of disastrous behaviour. [...] The modern world provides us with abundant secular examples of admirable values to which we cling under conditions where those values no longer make sense [...] It appears to me that much of the rigid opposition to environmental concerns in the First World nowadays involves values acquired early in life and never again reexamined [...].”
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed • Jared Diamond