"The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed." "I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self." "You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good."

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Source : John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

John Fowles

#Men Quotes #Race Quotes #Self Quotes

“Time has told me less than I need to know.”

Source : Gwen Harwood (2011). “Gwen Harwood: Selected Poems”, p.241, ReadHowYouWant.com
“In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.”
“I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.”
“Ki is within us. There is Ki everywhere, either we know how to use it or we don't.”

Source : "Aikido as an education system". Interview with Guillaume Erard and Ivan Bel, www.guillaumeerard.com. February 2, 2008.
“It is easy for me to love myself, but for ladies to do it is another question altogether.”
“To love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love.”
“VeggieTales is something that, on paper, makes no sense at all. It is a series of children's videos where limbless, talking vegetables act out Bible stories. Try raising money with that pitch.”

Source : "The Philosophical Implications of Talking Vegetables". Speech at Yale University, March 02, 2005.
“Never will this prevail, that the things that are not are â€” bar your thought from this road of inquiry.”

Source : Frag. B 7.1-2, quoted by Plato, "Sophist", 237a,

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