“Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness.”
Source: The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror
The Last Messiah [Den sidste Messias] (1933)
Hvorfor er menneskeslegten da ikke forlængst dødd ut under store vanvidsepidemier? Hvorfor er der bare et forholdsvis ringe antal individer som forkommer fordi de ikke kan holde livspresset ut, – fordi erkjendelsen gir dem mer enn de kan bære? Saavel aandshistorien som iagttagelsen av os selv og andre gir basis for følgende svar: De fleste mennesker lærer at redde sig ved kunstig at redusere sit bevissthetsindhold.
“Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness.”
Source: The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror
Dialogue between Russell and his daughter Katharine, as quoted in My Father – Bertrand Russell (1975)
Attributed from posthumous publications
Source: You Can Change the World (2003), p. 86.
"Cornel West interviewed by bell hooks" in Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life (1991)
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Ki Sayings (2003)
Context: Some people are quick to find reasons and excuses why they cannot do things. This cuts their Ki and in times stifles their motivation altogether. Motivation is extending Ki, not receiving it. People today are more concerned with what they can get, than what they can give or do for others. That is why they cannot extend Ki. <!-- Even our own training can be as intoku or good done in secret. Because someday it will bear fruit in the ability to help others develop.
Introduction: The Misjudgment of Paris
The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century (1998)