truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 5 March 2007 9:44 am

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
Blaise Pascal

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 5 March 2007 9:54 am

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
Blaise Pascal

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 5 March 2007 9:56 am

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
James A. Baldwin

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 5 March 2007 9:58 am

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
James A. Baldwin

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
James A. Baldwin

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 5 March 2007 10:01 am

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James A. Baldwin

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 5 March 2007 10:02 am

No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
James A. Baldwin

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 5 March 2007 10:04 am

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
James A. Baldwin