“It is natural for human beings to want incompatible things: [...] excitement and a quiet life, freedom and security, truth and a picture of the world that flatters their sense of self-importance.”
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Jonathan Schofield
on July 09, 2007
Ergo, we’re all hypocrites and inconsistent. But, as many point out lucidly in response to this related claim, some are more hypocritical than others.
(The quote is from John Gray, Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics.)
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