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“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”
The Decay of Lying • Oscar Wilde“Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping their outcomes towards success or failure: long-term planning, and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection, we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives.”
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed • Jared Diamond“The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them non-existent.”
Beware of Pity • Stefan Zweig“Men of profound sadness betray themselves when they are happy: they have a way of embracing happiness as if they wanted to crush and suffocate it, from jealousy: alas, they know only too well that it will flee.”
Beyond Good and Evil • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche“Which is it: is man one of God's blunders, or is God one of man's blunders?”
Twilight of the Idols • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche