"Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared."

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Source : Sissela Bok (2011). “Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation”, p.18, Vintage

Sissela Bok

#Fire Quotes #Secrecy Quotes #Indispensable Quotes

“In this world everything that is won to the ideal, is an eternal (or imperishable, - "impÃ©rissable", Fr.) good.”
“Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.”
“A smart policy should be one that tends to receive the capitals, pays the price for that capital - which is the interest - returns the capital and in the end the factories, the industries, are left to remain in the country.”
“Somebody told me when Abe Lincoln was a young man, studying by firelight, he said, "I will work hard. I will prepare myself. And my time will come." And you know, that's exactly what I said about myself and football - What do you think? Were Abe and I both just lucky ducks?”
“I can't stand by and allow tens of thousands of innocent people to be slaughtered for lies.”
“Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other. Love is an echo in the feelings of a unity subsisting between two persons which is founded both on likeness and on complementary differences. Without the likeness there would be no attraction; without the challenge of the complementary differences there could not be the closer interweaving and the inextinguishable mutual interest which is the characteristic of all deeper relationships.”

Source : "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.
“Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.”
“No such thing as humanity without flaws.”

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