Robbins – Skinny Legs and All

Book page: robbins-skinny-legs-all

From: Quotes batch 21

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Concept

“The dance of the seven veils is the concept of peeling back the layers of illusion—religion, politics, sex—to see the void underneath.” (p. 112)

Behavior

“Humans behave like puppets of their own metaphors, never realizing that the strings are made of words they didn’t write.” (p. 45)

Game Theory

“The ‘Super Bowl’ of history is a game where the players think they are fighting for land, but they are actually fighting for the right to define reality.” (p. 210)

Cognition

“The mind is like a spoon; it can only hold so much liquid before it spills, which is why we prefer solid lies to fluid truths.” (p. 138)

Memory

“We are haunted by the memory of a paradise we never inhabited, a collective nostalgia for a world that was never ours.” (p. 302)