Modern humanism is the faith that through science humankind can know the truth- and to be free. But if Darwin's theory of natural selection is true this is impossible. The human mind serves evolutionary success, not truth. To think otherwise is to resurrect the pre- Darwinian error that humans are different from all other animals. (..) There is no mechanism of selection in the history of ideas akin to that of the natural selection of genetic mutations in evolution.(..) Among humans, the best deceivers are those who deceive themselves: 'we deceive ourselves in order to deceive others better'. A lover who promises eternal fidelity s more likely to be believed if he believes his promise himself; he is no more likely to keep his promise.(..) In a competition for mates, a well-developed capacity for self-deception is an advantage. John Gray
And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.
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Alberto Moravia
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
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Sun Tzu
Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.
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Jim Butcher
Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.
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Ashly Lorenzana
Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.
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Walter Scott
More Quotes By John Gray
If we are to feel the positive feelings of love, happiness, trust, and gratitude, we periodically also have to feel anger, sadness, fear, and sorrow.
The fate of the Right in the late modern age is to destroy what remains of the past in a vain attempt to recover it.
Over the past two hundred years philosophy has shaken off Christian faith. It has not given up Christianity's cardinal error -the belief that humans are radically different from all other animals.
The Buddha promised release from something we all understand: suffering. By contrast, no one can say what was the original sin, and no one understands how the suffering of Christ can redeem it.
The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.
