“Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary masterplan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals.”

#Truth

Homosexuality: The Psychology of the Creative Process (1971)

Source: The Politics of Experience (1967), p. 3 of Introduction

Liner Notes

The Basic Teachings - Part 1: Principles of the Teaching (2009)

Books, There’s Probably No God - The Atheist’s Guide to Christmas (2009)

" The Buried Life http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/arnold/writings/buriedlife.html" (1852), st. 2
Context: Alas! is even love too weak
To unlock the heart, and let it speak?
Are even lovers powerless to reveal
To one another what indeed they feel?
I knew the mass of men conceal'd
Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd
They would by other men be met
With blank indifference, or with blame reproved;
I knew they lived and moved
Trick'd in disguises, alien to the rest
Of men, and alien to themselves — and yet
The same heart beats in every human breast!

Source: A Theory of Justice (1971; 1975; 1999), Chapter V, Section 41, p. 261