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“It is perhaps wrong to say that the enemy of enlightenment is logic; rather, it is dualistic, verbal thinking. In fact, it is even more basic than that: it is perception.”

Thinking Facts Enemy Perception Enlightenment Logic

Author:Douglas Hofstadter

“Paranoia reduces anxiety and guilt by transferring to the other all the characteristics one does not want to recognize in oneself. It is maintained by selective perception and recall. We only see and acknowledge those negative aspects of the enemy that support the stereotype we have already created.”

Want Doe Enemy Support Atheism Anxiety Perception Negative Aspect Guilt Oneself Positive Atheism Acknowledge Characteristics Recalls Stereotype Paranoia Selective

Author:Sam Keen

“[The cause of inaction in war] ... is the imperfection of human perception and judgment which is more pronounced in war than anywhere else. We hardly know accurately our own situation at any particular moment while the enemy's, which is concealed from us, must be deduced from very little evidence.”

Knows Humans Littles War Moments Causes Situation Enemy Particular Judgment Perception Evidence Imperfection Concealed Inaction

Author:Carl von Clausewitz

“The Jewish Talmud says that the righteous peoples have an equal place in paradise. The Christians and Muslims agree in rejecting that; they claim that they are the fortunate recipients of God's final message and those who accepted will go to heaven and those who rejected go to hell. So there is a long struggle between the Dar al-Islam and the Dar al-Harb, which in effect was Christendom. This was the perceived enemy. And this has inevitably colored the perception of everything else.”

Long Christian Heaven Enemy Struggle Hell Equal Perception Agree Accepted Righteous Rejected

Author:Bernard Lewis

“We're programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it diminishes us. I have found that it's done the opposite to me. Life is in perfect balance. It's just that our perception of it isn't.”

Believe Done Life Is Found Perfect Enemy Balance Perception Opposites Diminish Perfect Balance

Author:Queen Rania of Jordan

“In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.”

Moments Body Fighting Enemy Perception Crisis Critics Novelists Self Conscious Self Deception Essayists

Book:Animal Farm and 1984

Source: Animal Farm and 1984

“We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities.”

People Way Use Today Fighting Cities Enemy Plans Streets Perception Weakness Iraq Terrorist Afghanistan Invited Terrorist Attacks

Author:George W. Bush

“Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we are in danger from their folly, not from their wisdom; their weakness is what fills us with apprehension, not their strength.”

Giving Lord Enemy Danger Perception Weakness Wit Reasoning Folly Enlightening Apprehension Clearness

Book:Dissertations and Discussions: Political, Philosophical, and Historical

Source: Dissertations and Discussions: Political, Philosophical, and Historical

“It cannot be said too often that actions are good or bad in the light of consequences, and that a clear perception of consequences would control actions. That which increases the sum of human happiness is moral; and that which diminishes the sum of human happiness is immoral. . . . Blind, unreasoning obedience is the enemy of morality.”

Humans Said Light Action Moral Enemy Clear Morality Perception Consequence Increase Blind Obedience Diminish Immoral Human Happiness

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.”

Ifs Inspirational Should Attitude Enemy Friends One Day Perception Catholic Positive Attitude Theologian Cardinals Attitude Adjustment

Book:The Idea of a University

Source: The Idea of a University