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“[In the world below...] The wise and orderly soul is conscious of her situation, and follows in the path; but the soul which desires the body, and which... has long been fluttering about the lifeless frame and the world of sight, is after many struggles and many sufferings hardly and with violence carried away by her attendant genius, and when she arrives at the place where the other souls are gathered, if she be impure and have done impure deeds or have been concerned in foul murders or other crimes... from that soul everyone flees and turns away; no one will be her companion, no one her guide, but alone she wanders in extremity of evil until certain times are fulfilled...”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“One might expect, perhaps, that a man full of genius could pasture in the greatness of his own thoughts, and renounce the cheap approbation of the crowd which he despises; yet he succumbs to the more powerful impulse of the herd instinct. His searching and his finding, his call, belong to the herd.”
Psychology of the Unconscious • Carl Gustav Jung“But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.”
Mansfield Park • Jane Austen“History, as well as life itself, is complicated; neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.”
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed • Jared Diamond“Patriotism: Your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.”
A Journal of Democracy • George Bernard Shaw