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“when people overtly display some trait, such as confidence or hypermasculinity, they are most often concealing the contrary reality.”
― The Laws of Human Nature
― The Laws of Human Nature
“Doesn’t it seem to you that acting against one’s will, under protest and compulsion, is tantamount to being a slave?”
― Discourses and Selected Writings
― Discourses and Selected Writings
“Freedom is not achieved by satisfying desire, but by eliminating it. Assure yourself of this by expending as much effort on these new ambitions as you did on those elusive goals. Work day and night to obtain a liberated frame of mind. Instead of a rich old man, cultivate the company of a philosopher. Be seen hanging around his door for a change. There’s no shame in the association, and you won’t go away unedified or empty-handed, provided you go with the right attitude. Try, at least - There in no shame in making an honest effort.”
― Discourses and Selected Writings
― Discourses and Selected Writings
“The Jew is immunized against all dangers: One may call him a scoundrel, parasite, swindler, profiteer, it all runs off him like water off a raincoat. But call him a Jew and you will be astonished at how he recoils, how injured he is, how he suddenly shrinks back: "I’ve been found out".”
― Goebbels on the Jews: The Complete Diary Entries - 1923 to 1945
― Goebbels on the Jews: The Complete Diary Entries - 1923 to 1945
“Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy, then gives them drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction? It is already happening to some extent in our own society. It is well known that the rate of clinical depression has been greatly increasing in recent decades. We believe that this is due to disruption of the power process, as explained in paragraphs 59-76. But even if we are wrong, the increasing rate of depression is certainly the result of SOME conditions that exist in today’s society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed, modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect, antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual’s internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.”
― Industrial Society and Its Future
― Industrial Society and Its Future
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