#consoling

The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

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If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered. ↗

— Stanley Kubrick

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The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - though not to me. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

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Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling. ↗

— Martin Kippenberger

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