The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak. Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. Our greatest weariness comes from work not done.
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them. The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us.