"Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for freedom, it is but freedom to establish equality and uniformity. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority. "
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"the present is driven back as if it were an unclean thing and lumped with the detested past." "To lose one’s life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose much."
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"The very impracticability of many of the goals which a mass movement sets itself is part of the campaign against the present. All that is practicable, feasible and possible is part of the present. To offer something practicable would be to increase the promise of the present."
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"Those who fail in everyday affairs show a tendency to reach out for the impossible." "The successful businessman is often a failure as a communal leader because his mind is attuned to the “things that are” and his heart set on that which can be accomplished in “our time.”"
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"We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand." "The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious. The refusal to see ourselves as we are develops a distaste for facts and cold logic."
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"There is no hope for the frustrated in the actual and the possible. Salvation can come to them only from the miraculous, which seeps through a crack in the iron wall of inexorable reality. [They ask to be deceived]"
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