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“There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.”
Unpublished fragment • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche“Basic anxiety can be roughly described as a feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted or endangered in a world that is out to abuse, cheat, humiliate, betray, envy... . And special in this is the child's feeling that the parents' love, their Christian charity, honesty, generosity ... may be only a pretense.”
Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neurosis • Karen Horney“Private property ... has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain not growth its aim.”
The Soul of Man Under Socialism • Oscar Wilde“Granted I am a babbler, a harmless vexatious babbler, like all of us. But what is to be done if the direct and sole vocation of every intelligent man is babble, that is, the intentional pouring of water through a sieve?”
Notes from Underground • Fyodor Dostoevski“Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.”
Joan of Arc • Mark Twain