"Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them."

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Franklin P. Adams

#Cynical Quotes #Psychology Quotes #Worst Quotes

“Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.”
“He that made all things for love, by the same love keepeth them, and shall keep them without end.”
“It is the darling delusion of mankind that the world is progressive in religion, toleration, freedom, as it is progressive in machinery.”
“You can't just have stuff that is free and escapist, you have to have stuff that is confrontational as well. You need stuff that is mystical but you need the realism too.”
“Envy is but the smoke of low estate, Ascending still against the fortunate.”
“I've almost come to feel that it doesn't make much difference what you believe in - the thing that's important is a state of belief. It's much better to believe in nonsense than in nothing ...”
“He had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.”
“Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by nature, the rest he has to discover for himself.”

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