Theodore Dalrymple Quotes

Theodore Dalrymple
Theodore Dalrymple
English Writer
Born: Oct 11, 1949
Avoid Control Difficult Life Own People
Related authors: Arthur C. Clarke D. H. Lawrence Douglas Adams Gilbert K. Chesterton John Ruskin Ricky Gervais Rudyard Kipling Thomas Paine
Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own past, so that we do not recognize our own mistakes and avoid the necessity to make painful choices. Theodore Dalrymple
Great Mistakes Past Own Our Considering Our Lives Recognize Scant Selected Attention Importance Make Does Versions Psychiatrists Psychologists Us Choices Painful Avoid Resentment Lives Receives Necessity Damage Presents
Many young people now end a discussion with the supposedly definitive and unanswerable statement that such is their opinion, and their opinion is just as valid as anyone else's. The fact is that our opinion on an infinitely large number of questions is not worth having, because everyone is infinitely ignorant. Theodore Dalrymple
People Worth Young Else Valid Everyone Our Statement Definitive Having Fact Supposedly Because Opinion Questions End Discussion Infinitely Just Anyone Young People Ignorant Large Many Large Number Now Number
It is clear to me that people often want incompatible things. They want danger and excitement on the one hand, and safety and security on the other, and often simultaneously. Contradictory desires mean that life can never be wholly satisfying or without frustration. Theodore Dalrymple
Life Me People Frustration Safety Other Danger Security Never Clear Excitement Simultaneously Without Hand Contradictory Often Want Mean Wholly Satisfying Incompatible Things Desires
Parents are perhaps the most common object of resentment, the people who are most frequently blamed for all our failings and failures alike. Theodore Dalrymple
People Parents Our Alike Object Blamed Failings Failures Perhaps Most Frequently Common Who Resentment
The idea that man is a tabula rasa, or Mao's sheet of blank paper upon which the most beautiful characters can be written, is an old one with disastrous implications. I do not think though that the cults you mention could survive honest thought about human nature. Theodore Dalrymple
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