"What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to follow its own commandments: I mean, not to kill, not to take the lives of others to justify itself."

-- Ernest Becker

#Lying Quotes #Mean Quotes #Reality Quotes

“In my experience, staying in a marriage that my ex and I both agreed had all its best moments behind it was epically depressing.”
“At a bare minimum, understanding entails being able to detect an internal contradiction: a paradox.”

Source : "Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge". Book by William Poundstone, 1988.
“Sometimes words are not enough. There are some circumstances so utterly wretched that I cannot describe them in sentences or paragraphs or even a whole series of books.”
“Seek to give much -- expect nothing.”
“At the bottom of the ocean, bacteria that are thermophilic and can survive at the steam vent heat that would otherwise produce, if fish were there, sous-vide cooked fish, nevertheless, have managed to make that a hospitable environment for them.”
“I wanted to explore black culture, and I wanted that culture to be a revelation.”

Source : "Ailey's Troupe Explores Its Roots". Interview with Jennifer Dunning, www.nytimes.com. November 27, 1983.
“In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.”
“In anarchy there is no automatic harmony .”

Source : Kenneth N. Waltz (2013). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.186, Columbia University Press

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