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“In the form of the oeuvre, the actual circumstances are placed in another dimension where the given reality shows itself as that which it is. Thus it tells the truth about itself; its language ceases to be that of deception, ignorance, and submission. Fiction calls the facts by their name and their reign collapses; fiction subverts everyday experience and shows it to be mutilated and false.”

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“All men, and all created nature, have been at work, from the beginning of time to this day, to produce the circumstances which now influence our actions. AS soon as an act has been performed, it becomes independent of the individual performing it, and forthwith gives birth to some other act, which last gives birth to still another, and so they continue, and will continue, until the law of cause and effect shall cease to operate.”

Source: The Doctrine of Life: With Some of Its Theological Applications

“The pleasures of intimacy in friendship depend far more on external circumstances than people of a sentimental turn of mind are willing to concede; and when constant companionship ceases to suit the convenience of both parties, the chances are that it will be dropped on the first favourable opportunity.”

Source: Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)

“For as to the dispersing of Books, that Circumstance does perhaps as much harm as good: Since Nonsense flies with greater Celerity, and makes greater Impression than Reason; though indeed no particular species of Nonsense is so durable. But the several Forms of Nonsense never cease succeeding one another; and Men are always under the Dominion of some one or other, though nothing was ever equal in Absurdity and Wickedness to our present Patriotism.”

Men Doe Book Reason Form Greater Particular Circumstances Succeed Equal Species Harm Cease Impression Nonsense Absurdity Wickedness Dominion

Book:The Letters of David Hume:

Source: The Letters of David Hume:

“Man is a machine, but a very peculiar machine. He is a machine which, in right circumstances, and with right treatment, can know that he is a machine, and having fully realized this, he may find the ways to cease to be a machine. First of all, what man must know is that he is not one; he is many. He has not one permanent and unchangeable “I” or Ego. He is always different. One moment he is one, another moment he is another, the third moment he is a third, and so on, almost without end.”

Knows Men Way Firsts May Different Ends Moments Circumstances Ego Machines Thirds Cease Permanent Treatment Peculiar Unchangeable

Author:P.D. Ouspensky

“A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life. And he adapts his mind to that regulating factor, he ceases to accuse others as the cause of his condition, and builds himself up in strong and noble thoughts; ceases to kick against circumstances, but begins to use them as aids to his more rapid progress, and as a means of the hidden powers and possibilities within himself.”

Men Mind Mean Use Strong Causes Justice Learning Progress Conditions Possibility Circumstances Noble Aids Cease Factors Kicks Rapids Be A Man A Man Thinketh

Book:As a Man Thinketh

Source: As a Man Thinketh