Posted by: Giorgio De Luca
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Behavior)
It horrifies me when a beautiful mind is combined to a repugnant personality.
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It horrifies me when a beautiful mind is combined to a repugnant personality.
The best way of knowing someone is seeing how they behave when they're completely free of choosing.
An effective way of fighting axienty is worrying less about yourself and more about others. When we really understand others problems, ours lose importance.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Every age has its own fascism. There are many ways of reaching this point, and not just through the terror of police intimidation, but by denying and distorting information, by undermining systems of justice, by paralyzing the education system, and by spreading in a myriad subtle ways nostalgia for a world where order reigned.
Human aggression is instinctual. Humans have not evolved any ritualized aggression inhibiting mechanisms to ensure the survival of the species. For this reason man is considered a very dangerous animal.
Man's history is firstly and mainly a history of courage: proof that lacking courage you don't do anything, that if you don't have courage not even intelligence can help.
I was mad amongst the mad. The mad were deeply mad, some of them were very intellingent. Some of my greatest friendships were born there.
The mad are fun, unlike the demential, that are all out, in the world. I met the demential later on, when I got out!
And if it's worth the risk, I'll even bet the last fragment of my heart.
It was the only possible way. Now all is clear to me. Being undecided isn't necessarily bad. Non seeing everything in terms of slogans and organized parties and faiths and death may be a conviction for which it worth to die for. I thought of having no beliefs. Now I see I have a very strong one.