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“It's enough for me to want something for that thing to die. My destiny, however, is not powerful enough to prove deadly to just anything. It has the unfortunate disadvantage of being deadly only to those things I want.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“When we operate on the basis of the will to control, we are aware of only one kind of "evil": the failure of existence to conform to the plan we have for it.”
― Jerome A. Miller, The Way of Suffering: A Geography of Crisis

“Consciousness seems to be nature's ingenious mode of self-torture.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

“…the individual must blind himself from seeing that which his group claims does not exist, or accept as truth that which the majority says is true, even if his own eyes could convince him that it is false. The herd is so vitally important for the individual that their views, beliefs, feelings, constitute reality for him, more so than what his senses and his reason tell him.”
― Erich Fromm, Beyond the Chains of Illusion: My Encounter with Marx and Freud