There is apparently some connection between dissatisfaction with oneself and proneness to credulity. The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious. The refusal to see ourselves as we are develops a distaste for facts and cold logic. There is no hope for the frustrated in the actual and the possible. Salvation can come to them only from the miraculous, which seeps through a crack in the iron wall of inexorable reality. They asked to be deceived.
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The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity.
Every extreme attitude is a flight from the self.
Every extreme attitude is a flight from the self.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
