"Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge."

Weil, Simone on pain
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"Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune."

Jung, Carl on pride
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"Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty -- necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels."

Baldwin, James on christians and christianity   

"How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity."

Brown, Olympia on christians and christianity   

"People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced."

Butler, Samuel on christians and christianity   

"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."

Byron, Lord on christians and christianity   

"I know that two and two make four -- and should be glad to prove it too if I could -- though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure."

Byron, Lord on mathematics
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"Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated."

Drabek, R. on mathematics
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"The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around."

Caen, Herb on christians and christianity   

"Everyone is like a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."

Twain, Mark on secrets
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"And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on pride
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"There is this paradox in pride -- it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so."

Colton, Charles Caleb on pride
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"Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt."

Franklin, Benjamin on pride
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"Never look down on anybody unless you are helping them up."

Jackson, Jesse on pride
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"I have never been contained except I made the prison"

Evans, Mary on self-sabotage   

"Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains united against all separate individuals. The power of this community is then set up as right in opposition to the power of the individual, which is condemned as brute force."

Freud, Sigmund on majority   

"America is a mistake, a giant mistake."

Freud, Sigmund on america
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"One is very crazy when in love."

Freud, Sigmund on love
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"Where id was, there shall ego be."

Freud, Sigmund on maturity
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"The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness."

Freud, Sigmund on mind
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"I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the miracles of the Blessed Virgin than in the existence of the unconscious."

Freud, Sigmund on miracles   

"The time comes when each one of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will."

Freud, Sigmund on people
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"No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life."

Freud, Sigmund on babies
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"What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books."

Freud, Sigmund on repression
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"We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction."

Freud, Sigmund on sex   

"Sexual love is undoubtedly one of the chief things in life, and the union of mental and bodily satisfaction in the enjoyment of love is one of its culminating peaks. Apart from a few queer fanatics, all the world knows this and conducts its life accordingly; science alone is too delicate to admit it."

Freud, Sigmund on sex   

"The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is What does a woman want?"

Freud, Sigmund on women
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"Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this."

Freud, Sigmund on civilization   

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."

Adams, Douglas on humankind
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"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened."

Adams, Douglas on mystery
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"A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."

Adams, Douglas on trying
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"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."

Freud, Sigmund on fathers
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"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before."

West, Mae on evil
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"If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of a harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule."

Lawrence, D. H. on prostitution   

"The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men but rather their conqueror, an outlaw who controls the sexual channel between nature and culture."

Paglia, Camille on prostitution
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"There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed."

Sheehy, Gail on prostitution   

"The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."

Davies, Robertson on eyes
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"There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war."

Bellow, Saul on evil
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"There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it."

Buddha on evil
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"Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will."

Butterworth, Eric on evil