For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.
We are apt to measure the happiness or misery of the world by that portion of either which has fallen to our lot.
At a certain stage of misery, you'll try anything to explain what's going on with you, even if you know it doesn't explain a thing and it's one failed explanation after another.
Aldous Huxley
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflection
PHILIP ROTH, The Humbling
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