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“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
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“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.”
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“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
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“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“...when I betray myself, others' faults become immediately inflated in my heart and mind. I begin to 'horribilize' others. That is, I begin to make them out to be worse than they really are. And I do this because the worse they are, the more justified I feel.”
― The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict
― The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict
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