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“There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.”
The Post Office Girl • Stefan Zweig“ Only a small percentage of wild mammal species ended up in happy marriages with humans. ”
Guns, Germs And Steel • Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)““It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” ”
1984 • George Orwell“Anxiety may be compared with dizziness. He whose eye happens to look down into the yawning abyss becomes dizzy. But what is the reason for this? It is just as much in his own eye as in the abyss, for suppose he had not looked down. Hence, anxiety is the dizziness of freedom, which emerges when the spirit wants to posit the synthesis and freedom looks down into its own possibility, laying hold of finiteness to support itself. Freedom succumbs to dizziness. Further than this, psychology cannot and will not go. In that very moment everything is changed, and freedom, when it again rises, sees that it is guilty. Between these two moments lies the leap, which no science has explained and which no science can explain. He who becomes guilty in anxiety becomes as ambiguously guilty as it is possible to become.”
The Concept of Anxiety • Soren Kierkegaard““Outside of these, he should listen to no one, pursue the thing resolved on, and be steadfast in his resolutions. He who does otherwise is either overthrown by flatterers, or is so often changed by varying opinions that he falls into contempt.””
The Prince • Niccolo Machiavelli