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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Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
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Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone.
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Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity.
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Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
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If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait.
