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The unpredictability inherent...

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.

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In a time of drastic change, ...

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.

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The impression somehow prevai...

The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of the self breeds pride and arrogance.

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The revulsion from an unwante...

The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to sacrifice the self and a willingness to dissolve it by losing one's individual distinctness in a compact collective whole.

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Excesses are essentially gest...

Excesses are essentially gestures. It is easy to be extremely cruel, magnanimous, humble or self-sacrificing when we see ourselves as actors in a performance.

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Modern man is weighed down mo...

Modern man is weighed down more by the burden of responsibility than by the burden of sin. We think him more a savior who shoulders our responsibilities than him who shoulders our sins. If instead of making decisions we have but to obey and do our duty, we feel it as a sort of salvation.

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The devil personifies not the...

The devil personifies not the nature that is around us but the nature that is within us- the infinitely ferocious and cunning prehuman creature that is still within us, sealed in the subconscious cellars of the psyche.

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How much easier is self-sacri...

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!

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The nineteenth century plante...

The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in the twentieth century that was not foreshadowed or even advocated by some noble man of words in the nineteenth.

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We do not usually look for al...

We do not usually look for allies when we love. Indeed, we often look on those who love with us as rivals and trespassers. But we always look for allies when we hate.

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The desire to be different fr...

The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them.

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If the Communists win Europe ...

If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir up discontent or how to infect people with hatred, but because they know how to preach hope.

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Free men are aware of the imp...

Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect. They know that basic human problems can have no final solutions, that our freedom, justice, equality, etc. are far from absolute, and that the good life is compounded of half measures, compromises, lesser evils, and gropings toward the perfect. The rejection of approximations and the insistence on absolutes are the manifestation of a nihilism that loathes freedom, tolerance, and equity.

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Our originality shows itself ...

Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.

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The feeling of being hurried ...

The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else--we are the busiest people in the world.

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Love-making is radical, while...

Love-making is radical, while marriage is conservative.

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To our real, naked selves the...

To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves as actors in a staged (and therefore unreal) performance that death loses its frightfulness and finality and becomes an act of make-believe and a theatrical gesture. It is one of the main tasks of a real leader to mask the grim reality of dying and killing by evoking in his followers the illusion that they are participating in a grandiose spectacle, a solemn or lighthearted dramatic performance.

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It is a perplexing and unplea...

It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for,they do not feel like fighting.

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The passion to get ahead is s...

The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.

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What Pascal said of an effect...

What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be "contrary to nature, to common sense and to pleasure.

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