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“All the world knows that France sneezes when England takes a pinch of snuff.”
Diary of a Madman • Nikolai Gogol“[One of the company... said: ...is not this the direct contrary of what we admitted before—that out of the greater came the less and out of the less the greater, and that opposites are simply generated from opposites; whereas now this seems to be utterly denied.] ...then we were speaking of opposites in the concrete, and now of the essential opposite which, as is affirmed, neither in us nor in nature can ever be at variance with itself... these essetial opposites will never, as we maintain, admit of generation into or out of one another.”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“Through the eclipse of large areas of the self, by repression and inhibition as well as by idealization and externalization, the individual loses sight of himself; he feels, if he does not actually become, like a shadow without weight and substance.”
Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neurosis • Karen Horney“It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.”
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson • Mark Twain“Trolls are slow in the uptake, and mighty suspicious about anything new to them.”
The Hobbit • J.R.R Tolkien