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The Happy Prince and Other Tales

by Oscar Wilde

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Mar 31, 2016 08:38PM

“Pseudo idealism: apparent charitable behaviour that on scrutiny is revealed as selfish, because the giver is engaging in it only so that he or she can feel good about him or herself”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

tags: feel-good, human-condition, jeremy-griffith, pseudo, pseudoidealism, selfishness

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“Love is unconditional selflessness”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

tags: human-condition, jeremy-griffith, love, love-quotes, truth-about-love, unconditional-love, unconditional-love-and-wisdom

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“The agony of being unable to answer the question of why are we the way we are, divisively instead of cooperatively behaved, has been the particular burden of life. It has been our species' particular affliction or condition — our human condition.”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

tags: agony-of-human, human-condition, human-nature, jeremy-griffith, understand-life, why-are-we-the-way-we-are

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“While it is one thing to wish for the truth, it is quite another to cope with it”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

tags: human-condition, jeremy-griffith, truth

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“A fresh approach is needed — an analysis of our human situation from a basis that recognises and confronts the psychological dimension to our behaviour”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

tags: fresh-start, human-condition, jeremy-griffith, psychological, psychology

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