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Cali the Destroyer

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“Of whom and of what indeed can I say: 'I know that This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exist This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exist There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try t define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers. I can sketch one by one all the aspect it is able to assume, all those likewise that have been attr buted to it, this upbringing, this origin, this ardour or these silences, this nobility or this vileness. But aspects cannot be added up. This very heart which is mine will for ever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be filled. For ever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth. Socrates' 'Know thyself has as much value as the be virtuous of our confessionals. They reveal a nostalgia at the same time as an ignorance. They are sterile exercises on great subjects. They are legitimate only precisely in so far as they are approximate.”

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“Die Lektion des Nazitums ist nicht nur eine Geschichtslektion über Machtpolitik, Gier, Größenwahn und über das Böse, sondern sie lehrt auch, was Männer und Frauen zu tun imstande sind, wenn sie keine Beziehung zu ihrem inneren Sein haben. Dies zu erkennen könnte dazu beitragen, uns heute vor Ähnlichem zu bewahren. Denn solche Menschen sind nach wie vor überall unter uns. Statt politischen Ideologien folgen sie heute zum Beispiel den Gesetzen des geschäftlichen Erfolges.”

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Book:The Insanity of Normality: Toward Understanding Human Destructiveness
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“Diabolical. You’re a scoundrel in tasteful athleisure wear.” I grinned and stretched my arms. “Isn’t this jacket cute? I really couldn’t pass it up.” “It’s adorable.” She sipped her tea. “You’re adorable. Cooper should eat you up. But I have two of you that are as stubborn as mules. How is even a certified busybody supposed to Hallmark-ending you two?”

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“The bad self is prepared to suffer but not to obey until the two selves are friends and obedience has become reasonably easy or at least amusing. In reality the good self is very small indeed, and most of what appears good is not. The truly good is not a friendly tyrant to the bad, it is its deadly foe. Even suffering can play a demonic role here, and the ideas of guilt and punishment can be the most subtle tool of the ingenious self. The idea of suffering confuses the mind and in certain contexts (the context of ‘sincere self-examination’ for instance) can masquerade as a purification.”

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