Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal remedy for everything from juvenile delinquency to premature senility.
Malcolm MuggeridgeRead
The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Feeling at home on Earth may lead to complacency and a lack of awareness of life's deeper meanings.
Malcolm Muggeridge's quote suggests that becoming too comfortable and complacent in our earthly existence can be a significant disaster. It implies that true growth and understanding come from recognizing the transient nature of life and striving for something greater beyond our immediate realities, fostering a sense of curiosity and desire for exploration within ourselves.
Themes
ComplacencyAwarenessLifeExistenceGrowth
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about the importance of self-awareness, this quote could highlight the dangers of complacency.
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All quotes βThis life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to put out, be his motives never so humane and enlightened; To suppose otherwise is to countenance a death-wish; Either life is always and in all circumstances sacred, or intrinsically of no account; it is inconceivable that it should be in some cases the one, and in some the other.
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I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.
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It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
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Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
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All happenings, great and small, are parables whereby God speaks. The art of life is to get the message. To see all that is offered us at the windows of the soul, and to reach out and receive what is offered, this is the art of living.
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