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“Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: bitterness, dangerous, dishonesty, feuds, force, honesty, lies, lying, man, mankind, peace, pressure, repression, resistance, rivalry, run, secrecy, suppression, tension, truth, war

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“Everyone has the best of feelings towards mankind in general, but not towards the individual man. We'll kill men, but we want to save mankind. And that isn't right, your Reverence. The world will be an evil place as long as people don't believe in other people.”
― Karel Čapek, The Absolute at Large

tags: love-thy-enemies, mankind, war

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“We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.”
― Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

tags: acceptance, background, confidence, cultivation, development, enlightenment, heritage, humanity, humans, life, mankind, original-sin, origins, pride, progress, sentient-beings, shame, truth

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“Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?”
― H. Rider Haggard, She

tags: arrogance, foolishness, futility, humanity, intelligence, knowledge, learning, mankind, stupidity, wisdom

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“So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it going? Are we to grow used to the idea that every man relives ancient torments, which are all the more profound because they grow comic with repetition? That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox...”
― Stanisław Lem, Solaris