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“We all intuitively know that a mother's love is crucial to the creation of a well-adjusted human and that we are all born with an instinctive expectation of receiving unconditionally selfless love from our mother.”
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“Love is unconditional selflessness”
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
“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”
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“While it is one thing to wish for the truth, it is quite another to cope with it”
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
“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.”
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
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