“When people are free to do as we please, they usually imitate each other.”
Section 33
The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)
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Source: Healing Our World: In An Age of Aggression, (2003), p. 161

We can quite well turn away from our true destiny, but only to fall a prisoner in the deeper dungeons of our destiny. … Theoretic truths not only are disputable, but their whole meaning and force lie in their being disputed, they spring from discussion. They live as long as they are discussed, and they are made exclusively for discussion. But destiny — what from a vital point of view one has to be or has not to be — is not discussed, it is either accepted or rejected. If we accept it, we are genuine; if not, we are the negation, the falsification of ourselves. Destiny does not consist in what we feel we should like to do; rather is it recognised in its clear features in the consciousness that we must do what we do not feel like doing.
Source: The Revolt of the Masses (1929), Chapter XI: The Self-Satisfied Age

Source: The Blue Book of Freedom: Ending Famine, Poverty, Democide, and War (2007), p. 14

“When people are like each other they tend to like each other.”

A Song of Defeat (1910)