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“America will aim no higher than the creation and aggressive marketing of minor consumer products that replace similar, and perfectly satisfactory, consumer products. “America may be losing a competitive edge in many enterprises, from cars to space,” riffed National Public Radio host Scott Simon in the summer of 2010, “but as long as we can devise a five-bladed, mineral-oil-saturated razor, we face the future well-shaved.”
― Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
― Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
“We are astonished to hear declarations by married women and girls which bear witness to a quite particular attitude to the therapeutic problem: they had always known, they say, that they could only be cured by love.”
― Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
― Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
“The difference between appreciation and flattery? That is simple. One is sincere and the other insincere. One comes from the heart out; the other from the teeth out. One is unselfish; the other selfish. One is universally admired; the other universally condemned.”
― How To Win Friends and Influence People
― How To Win Friends and Influence People
“Not that I know so much, but there are so many equally valid possibilities. For the present I do not believe that anyone is justified in saying that sexuality is the mother of all feelings.”
― The Freud/Jung Letters
― The Freud/Jung Letters
“Where the mind and heart are held by fear, by lack of understanding, by compulsion, such a mind, though it can think within the confines, within the limitations of that fear, is not really thinking, and its action must ever throw up new barriers. Therefore, its capacity to think is ever being limited. But if the mind frees itself through the understanding of circumstances and, therefore, acts, then that very action is creative thinking.”
― Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti – A Spiritual Guide for Independent Seekers on Meditation, Truth, and Peace
― Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti – A Spiritual Guide for Independent Seekers on Meditation, Truth, and Peace
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