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“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.”
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
“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.”
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
“Modern man has lost the sense of wonder
about the unknown and he treats it as
an enemy.”
― Patterns of Renewal
about the unknown and he treats it as
an enemy.”
― Patterns of Renewal
“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.”
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
“The human condition is the immensely mentally insecure and psychologically distressed state that all humans have suffered from as a result of a clash between our species’ original non-understanding, dictatorial, instinctive orientations to the world, and our newer fully conscious mind that needs to understand the world to operate.”
― The Human Condition: What exactly is it, what caused it, and how the human race has finally liberated itself from the horror of it.
― The Human Condition: What exactly is it, what caused it, and how the human race has finally liberated itself from the horror of it.
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