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“For those who do not wish to step away from consensus, the creative is useless at best; at worst, it is dangerous.”

Wish Steps Creative Worst Dangerous Danger Useless Consensus

Book:Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Jou

Source: Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Jou

“As I have already said, the belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous or all delusions. It becomes still more dangerous if it is coupled with the missionary zeal to enlighten the rest of the world, whether the rest of the world wishes to be enlightened or not. To refuse to embrace wholeheartedly a particular definition of reality, to dare to see the world differently can become a "think crime" in a truly Orwellian sense as we get steadily closer to 1984.”

Source: How real is real?: Confusion, disinformation, communication

“It was apparent to me that religion was an invented thing, a wish-fulfillment thing, a fantasy thing. It was much more real, dangerous, to accept that mortality was the end for you as an individual. As an atheist, I don't believe in an afterlife, so if you're thinking of murder, if your subject is murder, then that's a physical act of absolute destruction because you're ending something, a body, that is unique. That person never existed before, will never exist again, will not be karmically recycled, will not go to heaven, therefore I take it seriously.”

“Those who wish to punish the current and future generations for the inequities of a generation long gone, and who equate justice with revenge, are the most dangerous people in the world.”

People World Long Wish Justice Gone Generations Dangerous Currents Revenge Future Generation

Book:Deeply Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel

Source: Deeply Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel

“People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a sleeping draught, which, if it does not put us to sleep, keeps us all the more awake.”

People Ifs Mean Doe Wish Sleep Dangerous Awake Flattery Caution Numb Employing Draught

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I once said that it was unacceptable for Japan to remain "an isolated prosperous island." At one time, it might have been all right for Japan to avoid sending any citizens to dangerous areas [even as part of international efforts] and just wish for its own people's happiness. That time is gone.”

People Has Beens Said Might Wish Effort Gone Dangerous Citizens Areas International Islands Japan One Time Isolated Might Have Been Prosperous

Author:Sadako Ogata

“If you have to do with one who is unquestionably a slanderer, do not excuse him by calling him frank and free-spoken; do not call one who is notoriously vain, liberal and elegant; do not call dangerous levities mere simplicity; do not screen disobedience under the name of zeal; or arrogance, of frankness; or evil intimacy, of friendship. No, my friends, we must never, in our wish to shun slander, foster or flatter vice in others: but we must call evil evil, and sin sin, and so doing we shall serve God's glory.”

Source: The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]

“Making wishes on the elephant is emotionally dangerous, because inevitably one's hopes rise abnormally high, unhealthily high, and when the wish does not come true, one's high hopes get crushed more painfully than if one had not asked for the help of supernatural powers. Therefore, one should always try to make the wish casually and forget about it instantly after making it, which is what I try to do now.”

Ifs Should Trying Doe Helping Wish Forget Dangerous Elephants Crushed True Ones Supernatural Powers

Author:Amanda Filipacchi

“Thoughts are ephemeral, they evaporate in the moment they occur, unless they are given action and material form. Wishes and intentions, the same. Meaningless, unless they impel you to one choice or another, some deed or course of action, however insignificant. Thoughts that lead to action can be dangerous. Thoughts that do not, mean less than nothing.”

Mean Moments Action Form Choices Courses Given Wish Dangerous Materials Intention Deeds Meaningless Insignificant Ephemeral

Author:Ann Leckie

“There is nothing more dangerous in the spiritual life, than to wish to rule ourselves after our own way of thinking.”

Thinking Way Spiritual Wish Dangerous Spiritual Life Way Of Thinking

Book:The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri

Source: The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri

“Life is sinister. I don't know if I am representing life exactly, but sinister, I think it has to do with dreams. You're dreaming when you're awake: you're sitting on the subway and you look around, and you can think of sinister things that are kind of delightful to think of because they're not really happening, but they are in your mind. They're about wishes, desires - sexy, dangerous, hopeful, the way it could be, maybe.”

Thinking Mind Kind Dream Desire Wish Dangerous Sexy Awake Hopeful Sinister

Author:Hampton Fancher