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...passionate intensity may serve as a substitute for confidence.
...passionate intensity may serve as a substitute for confidence.
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained read more
No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained unique whole, looking outward as a dependent part. His self-assertive tendency is the dynamic manifestation of his unique wholeness, his autonomy and independence as a holon. Its equally universal antagonist, the integrative tendency, expresses his dependence on the larger whole to which he belongs: his 'part-ness.'.
The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be...The nation and the read more
The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be...The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.
Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
To be truly selfish one needs a degree of self-esteem. The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than read more
To be truly selfish one needs a degree of self-esteem. The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unattainable, envy takes the place of greed.
Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure.
Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure.
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of read more
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
