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If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie read more
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
Freud: If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.
Freud: If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.
The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best
The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, read more
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt
Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt
It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one's time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the read more
It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one's time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the low-class tea shops
Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have read more
Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve
