25 Quotes by Willard Gaylin
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Spare me therefore, your good intentions, your inner sensitivities, your unarticulated and unexpressed love. And spare me also these tedious psycho-historians which, by exposing the goodness inside the bad man, and the evil in the good-invariably establish a vulgar and perverse egalitarianism, as if the arrangement of what is outside and what inside makes no moral difference.
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In a world where survival is always seen as a struggle, and in which some pitfalls always exist, if something brings into question our confidence in our own coping ability, it will threaten our safety.
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I not only think that we will tamper with Mother Nature, I think Mother wants us to.
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Life is to be enjoyed, not simply endured. Pleasure and goodness and joy support the pursuit of survival.
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Feeling good and feeling bad are not necessarily opposites. Both at least involve feelings. Any feeling is a reminder of life. The worst ‘feeling’ evidently is non-feeling.
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A street thug and a paid killer are professionals – beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout.
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The larger office, the corner space, the extra window are the teddy bears and tricycles of adult office life.
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