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The Happy Prince and Other Tales

by Oscar Wilde

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Mar 31, 2016 08:38PM

“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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“Mother's love created our awe-inspiring moral sense”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

tags: freedom, jeremy-griffith, love, mother, mothers-love, nurturing, unconditional-love

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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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“man is the only animal which causes pain to others with no other object than causing pain…No animal ever torments another for the sake of tormenting: but man does so, and it is this which constitutes the diabolical nature which is far worse than the merely bestial”
― Schopenhauer, Arthur

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“Finding understanding of the human condition is what rehabilitates and transforms the human race”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

tags: human-condition, jeremy-griffith, transformation

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