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| We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about. | | Uncategorized | |
| We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious. | | Uncategorized | |
| We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand | | Uncategorized | |
| We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened | | Uncategorized | |
| We can see through others only when we see through ourselves | | Uncategorized | |
| We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams | | Uncategorized | |
| We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire. | | Words | |
| We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white. | | Uncategorized | |
| We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends. | | Uncategorized | |
| We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. | | Mind | |
| We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves. | | Lies | |
| We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for. | | Uncategorized | |
| We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something to say, but all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice when we have nothing to say and want desperately to say it. | | Uncategorized | |
| We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution. | | Uncategorized | |
| What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else? | | Reassurance | |
| When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion. | | Uncategorized | |
| When people are bored it is primarily with themselves. | | Uncategorized | |
| When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. | | People | |
| When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths. | | Uncategorized | |
| When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom - freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. | | Uncategorized | |
