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15. “Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart—one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man.”
Edgar Allan Poe
Existence, Morality, Human Nature, Philosophical Insight, Emotional Struggle, Psychological Reflection
16. “Yet, hope – the hope that we, human beings, can be better than we are – dies hard; perhaps one can no longer live if one allows that hope to die. But it is also hard to see what one sees. One sees that most human beings are wretched, and, in one way or another, become wicked: because they are so wretched.” James Baldwin Hope, Human Nature, Despair, Morality, Struggle
17. “Yet because they did not know one another, and could not understand one another, and dared not trust one another, and felt from infancy the terrors and insecurity of that ultimate isolation – there was the hunted fear of man for man, the savage rapacity of man toward man.” Isaac Asimov Human Nature, Isolation Fear, Trust Issues, Insecurity, Survival Instinct, Conflict
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15. “Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart—one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man.”
Edgar Allan Poe Existence, Morality, Human Nature, Philosophical Insight, Emotional Struggle, Psychological Reflection
16. “Yet, hope – the hope that we, human beings, can be better than we are – dies hard; perhaps one can no longer live if one allows that hope to die. But it is also hard to see what one sees. One sees that most human beings are wretched, and, in one way or another, become wicked: because they are so wretched.”
James Baldwin Hope, Human Nature, Despair, Morality, Struggle
17. “Yet because they did not know one another, and could not understand one another, and dared not trust one another, and felt from infancy the terrors and insecurity of that ultimate isolation – there was the hunted fear of man for man, the savage rapacity of man toward man.”
Isaac Asimov Human Nature, Isolation Fear, Trust Issues, Insecurity, Survival Instinct, Conflict
