“…reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays….” People believe in God because they’ve been conditioned to.” Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons–that’s philosophy. As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. “You remind me of another of those old fellows called Bradley. “But isn’t it natural to feel there’s a God?” “You might as well ask if it’s natural to do up one’s trousers with zippers,” said the Controller sarcastically. And then,” he added in a lower tone, “I ate my own wickedness.” “No social stability without individual stability.” “Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.” “…most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.” “All right then,” said the savage defiantly, I’m claiming the right to be unhappy.””Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent the right to have syphilis and cancer the right to have too little to eat, the right to be lousy the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow the right to catch typhoid the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind.” There was a long silence.”I claim them all,” said the Savage at last.” Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.” On no account brood over your wrongdoing. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.

“Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. “One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”

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