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An expression we use in Netherlands is "When someting sounds too good to be true, it will be too good to be true". But not for this book that claims to save the world. The strange thing with this book is that it doesn't tell you how to think, what to
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"Because of the summer holidays I've been reading a lot lately. This time it is even more exiting than the last two times I red it because I have got a bigger understanding now.
Tomorrow, june 24th I will start reading the Dutch translation. I've red some small parts and reading this in my own language touches another (deeper) level." — Aug 11, 2020 03:31AM
"Because of the summer holidays I've been reading a lot lately. This time it is even more exiting than the last two times I red it because I have got a bigger understanding now.
Tomorrow, june 24th I will start reading the Dutch translation. I've red some small parts and reading this in my own language touches another (deeper) level." — Aug 11, 2020 03:31AM
“The moral sense perhaps affords the best and highest distinction between man and the lower animals”
― The Descent of Man
― The Descent of Man
“The journalist Richard Neville was frighteningly accurate when, in summarising the desperate state of our species’ situation, he wrote that ‘We are locked in a race between self destruction and self discovery’. ONLY ‘self discovery’ — this reconciling, ameliorating, psychologically healing understanding of ourselves — can save us from ‘self destruction’.”
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
“We humans don’t suffer from a genetic-opportunism-driven ‘animal condition’, but a conscious-mind-based, psychologically troubled HUMAN CONDITION.”
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
“In a world fast going crazy from the effects of the human condition, this is the now desperately needed reconciling understanding that brings about a new world for humans FREE of the agony of the human condition. In short, this is the understanding that ends human suffering and unites the human race.”
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
“The playwright George Bernard Shaw also warned of how difficult it is to introduce a new paradigm of thinking — especially one that dares to confront the historically unbearably confronting and off-limits subject of the human condition — when he said that ‘All great truths begin as blasphemies’ (Annajanska, 1919).”
― The Interview: How We Can Finally End All the Turmoil & Suffering in the World!
― The Interview: How We Can Finally End All the Turmoil & Suffering in the World!
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