Jeremy Griffith Quotes

#1. The agony of being unable to answer the question of why are we the way we are, divisively instead of cooperatively behaved, has been the particular burden of life. It has been our species' particular affliction or condition - our human condition.

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#2. When the hypocrisy of life appears we often fail to recognise it or the question it raises

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#3. Love is unconditional selflessness

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#4. Finding understanding of the human condition is what rehabilitates and transforms the human race

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#5. When the human condition is finally demystified, human insecurity and nervousness will be at a maximum ... for this ultimate enlightenment to be allowed, society is going to have to adhere scrupulously to the democratic principle of freedom of expression.

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#6. Since science and religion provide two different perspectives on the human situation, they must ultimately be able to be reconciled.

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#7. We all intuitively know that a mother's love is crucial to the creation of a well-adjusted human and that we are all born with an instinctive expectation of receiving unconditionally selfless love from our mother.

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#8. We can transition from being victims of the human condition to becoming secure, sound, effective managers of our world

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#9. A fresh approach is needed - an analysis of our human situation from a basis that recognises and confronts the psychological dimension to our behaviour

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#10. The increasingly thoughtful child can see the whole horribly upset world and would be understandably totally bewildered and deeply troubled by it

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#11. The truth is, the hypocrisy of humans is everywhere

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#12. Men and women fall in love abandoning reality in favour of the dream

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#13. While it is one thing to wish for the truth, it is quite another to cope with it

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#14. While religious assurances such as 'God loves you' could comfort us, we ultimately had to understand why we are loveable

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#15. Pseudo idealism: apparent charitable behaviour that on scrutiny is revealed as selfish, because the giver is engaging in it only so that he or she can feel good about him or herself

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#16. What's needed on Earth is love of the dark side of ourselves

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#17. Mother's love created our awe-inspiring moral sense

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#18. Throughout history we humans have struggled to find meaning in the awesome contradiction of our human condition. Neither philosophy, nor psychology nor biology has, until now, been able to provide the truthful explanation.

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