266. What did it mean for a person to be free? Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren't you just in another, larger cage?
307. Things are so convenient for us these days, our perceptions are probably that much duller. Four hundred years ago, we might have had richer spirits that were closer to nature.
374. Gilyaks do not recognize that anybody has power over them.
420. The ones who did it can always rationalize their actions and even forget what they did. They can turn away from things that don't want to see. But the surviving victims can never forget. They can't turn away. Their memories are passed on from parent to child. That's what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
582. Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyone else. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. A person who is incapable of loving another cannot properly love himself.
626. Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one is looking for painful truths. What people need is beautiful, comforting stories that make them feel as if their lives have some meaning.
658. Where there is light, there must be shadow, and where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light and no light without shadow. Karl Jung said this about 'the Shadow' in one of his books: 'It is as evil as we are positive... the more desperately we try to be good and wonderful and perfect, the more the Shadow develops a definite will to be black and evil and destructive...The fact is that if one tries beyond one's capacity to be perfect, the Shadow descends to hell and becomes the devil. For it is just as sinful from the standpoint of nature and of truth to be above oneself as to be below oneself.'
903. Nobody's easier to fool than the person who is convinced that he is right.
990. Most people in the world don't really use their brains to think. And people who don't think are the ones who don't listen to others.
1041. Most of what is generally considered the truth is entirely relative. Subject and object are not as distinct as most people think.
1064. The time slowly chips away at life. People don't just die when their time comes. They gradually die away, from the inside. And finally the day comes when you have to settle accounts. Nobody can escape it. People have to pay the price for what they've received.
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