It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.
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Convictions are prisons.
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
In a way, literature is true than life,’ he said to himself. ‘On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel. How easy it is to break things off on paper! You hate, you shout, you kill, you commit suicide; you carry things to the very end. And that’s why it’s false. But it’s damned satisfying. In life, you’re constantly denying yourself, and others are always contradicting you. On paper, I make time stand still and I impose my convictions on the whole world; they become the only reality.
The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.