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“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
Book VII • Marcus Aurelius“In particular, while natural selection favors both males and females that leave many offspring, the best strategy for doing so may be different for fathers and mothers. That generates a built-in conflict between the parents, a conclusion that all too many humans don’t need scientists to reveal to them. We make jokes about the battle of the sexes, but the battle is neither a joke nor an aberrant accident of how individual fathers or mothers behave on particular occasions. It is indeed perfectly true that behavior that is in a male’s genetic interests may not necessarily be in the interests of his female co-parent, and vice versa. That cruel fact is one of the fundamental causes of human misery.”
Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality • Jared Diamond“Basic anxiety can be roughly described as a feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted or endangered in a world that is out to abuse, cheat, humiliate, betray, envy... . And special in this is the child's feeling that the parents' love, their Christian charity, honesty, generosity ... may be only a pretense.”
Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neurosis • Karen Horney““Love and laughter and fear and pain are universal currencies.””
Midnight Library • Matt Haig“The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.”
The Karamazov Brothers • Fyodor Dostoevski