The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable. Counsels and Maxims
When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn’t inside us can’t excite us.” Demian
When men are about to commit, or sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity for the object either of that or some parallel proceeding, and to feel themselves, at the time, quite virtuous and moral, and immensely superior to those who express no pity at all. This is a kind of upholding of faith above works, and is very comfortable. Nicholas Nickleby
The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances that it easily changes to accord with what can be done and what is given it to do. Book IV
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