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#1

“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, remembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.

—T.S. Eliot, from “Little Gidding,” Four Quartets (Gardners Books; Main edition, April 30, 2001) Originally published 1943.”
― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

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#2

“Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare sieze the fire?”
― William Blake

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#3

“The moral sense perhaps affords the best and highest distinction between man and the lower animals”
― Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man

tags: biology, darwin, morality

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#4

“We humans have cooperative, selfless and loving moral instincts, the voice or expression of which we call our conscience—which is the complete opposite of competitive, selfish and aggressive instincts. As Charles Darwin said, "The moral sense… affords the best and highest distinction between man and the lower animals.”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

tags: biology, charles-darwin, human-condition, science

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#5

“What's needed on Earth is love of the dark side of ourselves”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

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#6

“Throughout history we humans have struggled to find meaning in the awesome contradiction of our human condition. Neither philosophy, nor psychology nor biology has, until now, been able to provide the truthful explanation.”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

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#6

“The increasingly thoughtful child can see the whole horribly upset world and would be understandably totally bewildered and deeply troubled by it”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

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#7

“The truth is, the hypocrisy of humans is everywhere”
― Jeremy Griffith

tags: humans, hypocrisy, hyprocritical, jeremy-griffith

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#8

“We all intuitively know that a mother's love is crucial to the creation of a well-adjusted human and that we are all born with an instinctive expectation of receiving unconditionally selfless love from our mother.”
― Jeremy Griffith

tags: human-condition, jeremy-griffith, love, mother, mothers-love, unconditional-love-quotes

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#9

“A fresh approach is needed — an analysis of our human situation from a basis that recognises and confronts the psychological dimension to our behaviour”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

tags: fresh-start, human-condition, jeremy-griffith, psychological, psychology

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#10

“Imagine if all the car makers in the world were to sit down together to design one extremely simple, embellishment-free, functional car that was made from the most environmentally-sustainable materials, how cheap to buy and humanity-and-Earth-considerate that vehicle would be. And imagine all the money that would be saved by not having different car makers duplicating their efforts, competing and trying to out-sell each other, and overall how much time that would liberate for all those people involved in the car industry to help those less fortunate and suffering in the world. Likewise, imagine when each house is no longer designed to make an individualised, ego-reinforcing, status-symbol statement for its owners and all houses are constructed in a functionally satisfactory, simple way, how much energy, labour, time and expense will be freed up to care for the wellbeing of the less fortunate and the planet.”
― Jeremy Griffith

tags: capitalism, car, future-inspirational, hope, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, leadership-speech, materialism, materialism-versus-spiritualism, soul

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#11

“We can transition from being victims of the human condition to becoming secure, sound, effective managers of our world”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

tags: human-condition, jeremy-griffith, new-world

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#12

“Since science and religion provide two different perspectives on the human situation, they must ultimately be able to be reconciled.”
― Jeremy Griffith, Beyond the Human Condition

tags: jeremy-griffith, reconciliation, reconciliation-of-opposites, religion, religion-and-philoshophy, science, science-and-religion, science-vs-religion

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#13

“While religious assurances such as 'God loves you' could comfort us, we ultimately had to understand why we are loveable”
― Jeremy Griffith, A Species in Denial

tags: god-loves-you, jeremy-griffith, loveable, religion, religious-beliefs

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#14

“When the human condition is finally demystified, human insecurity and nervousness will be at a maximum…for this ultimate enlightenment to be allowed, society is going to have to adhere scrupulously to the democratic principle of freedom of expression.”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

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#15

“Mother's love created our awe-inspiring moral sense”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

tags: freedom, jeremy-griffith, love, mother, mothers-love, nurturing, unconditional-love

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#16

“The real debate about both the horrific inequality in the world and about the terrorism and frightening instability in the world requires analysis of the differences in upset-adaption or alienation-from-soul between individuals, races, genders, generations, countries, civilisations and cultures, but until the human condition could be explained and the upset state of the human condition compassionately understood and thus defended that debate could not take place.”
― Jeremy Griffith

tags: alienation-versus-humanity, civilisation, culture, future, human-condition, inequality, instability, jeremy-griffith, terrorism

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#17

“While religions could not liberate humans from the agony of the human condition…they did provide an invaluable way to withdraw from the brink of madness”
― Jeremy Griffith

tags: jeremy-griffith, religion, religious-faith

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#18

“Men and women fall in love abandoning reality in favour of the dream”
― Jeremy Griffith

tags: biology, jeremy-griffith, love, men, quote, sexes, women

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#19

“Finding understanding of the human condition is what rehabilitates and transforms the human race”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

tags: human-condition, jeremy-griffith, transformation

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#20

“The agony of being unable to answer the question of why are we the way we are, divisively instead of cooperatively behaved, has been the particular burden of life. It has been our species' particular affliction or condition — our human condition.”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

tags: agony-of-human, human-condition, human-nature, jeremy-griffith, understand-life, why-are-we-the-way-we-are

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#21

“Pseudo idealism: apparent charitable behaviour that on scrutiny is revealed as selfish, because the giver is engaging in it only so that he or she can feel good about him or herself”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

tags: feel-good, human-condition, jeremy-griffith, pseudo, pseudoidealism, selfishness

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#22

“When the hypocrisy of life appears we often fail to recognise it or the question it raises”
― Jeremy Griffith

tags: hypocrisy, hyprocritical, jeremy-griffith

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#23

“Love is unconditional selflessness”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

tags: human-condition, jeremy-griffith, love, love-quotes, truth-about-love, unconditional-love, unconditional-love-and-wisdom

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#24

“While it is one thing to wish for the truth, it is quite another to cope with it”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

tags: human-condition, jeremy-griffith, truth

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#25

“To stop the destruction of our world and the disintegration of society that is happening everywhere we look we have to fix the cause of the problems at its source, which is us humans, our psychosis.”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

tags: denial, human-condition, humans, jeremy-griffith, psychology, psychology-quotes, save-the-world

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#26

“Bonobos provide the perfect evidence for how our distant ape ancestors became cooperative and loving.”
― Jeremy Griffith, THE Interview That Solves The Human Condition And Saves The World!

tags: biology, bonobos, human-condition, jeremy-griffith, primatology

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#27

“If you want to save the snow leopard, or the giant Redwoods, or the Okavango delta, or the Amazon, or the atmosphere, or the Earth, or those you love, or yourself, or the human race, this is the only path that can achieve that–so the truth is the sooner you support and adopt this path of transformation through understanding the better. The choice is self-destruction or self-discovery.”
― Jeremy Griffith

tags: amazon, amazon-river, earth, environment, environmentalism, jeremy-griffith, okavango-delta, redwoods, self-destruction, self-discovery, snow-leopard, transformation

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#28

“Until the human condition could be resolved it was not safe to acknowledge the different roles men and women played in the journey to enlightenment. Over time it was found that the best way to control prejudices was to prevent acknowledgement of any substantial differences between the sexes. The dogma of politically correct culture emerged.”
― Jeremy Griffith, A Species in Denial

tags: a-species-in-denial, dogma, human-condition, men-and-women, political-correct-crap, politically-correct-culture, prejudices

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#29

“Finding understanding of our psychologically troubled human condition has actually been what the efforts of every human who has ever lived has been dedicated to achieving and has contributed to finding.”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

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