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“You can dam and direct the water, and you can force it to remain on the top of a mountain without flowing down. But is this what water's nature really is? It is what you have done to it that makes it so. Humans can also be made to be not good in the same way. "
- Mencius”
― The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life
- Mencius”
― The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life
“Oh, to have the confidence of a very average white male.”
― How to Kill Men and Get Away With It
― How to Kill Men and Get Away With It
“You must find the courage to leave the table if respect is no longer being served.”
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“The psychologist and philosopher William James (1842–1910) once wrote, “A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him”—a surprisingly Confucian sentiment.”
― The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life
― The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life
“My job didn't involve working directly with patients, but I thought about them a lot. I saw them as victims of our fucked-up, materialistic, impersonal, hectic, over-mechanized, dehumanizing society. There wasn't much mystery about why these people were so screwed up. The mystery was why everyone else wasn't nuts too. But somehow I never figured it could ever happen to me, that I could some day be shuffling around in slippers and pajamas, bumming cigarettes and mumbling to myself. There were too many people who loved me, who would never commit me to an institution, whose love would keep me from getting that spaced out.”
― The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity
― The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity
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