Where pride is insistent enough, memory prefers to give way. Man and His Symbols
Variant translation: If I had to define man it would be: a biped, ungrateful. Notes from Underground
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
That books do not take the place of experience, and that learning is no substitute for genius, are two kindred phenomena; their common ground is that the abstract can never take the place of the perceptive. The World As Will and Representation
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