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One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real…
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The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic…
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The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to…
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Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or…
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True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated…
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If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it…
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Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near…
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The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a fascinating person…
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One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the…
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From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the…
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A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.
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Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
— Edmund Burke
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If, however, there is to be a war of nerves let us make sure our nerves are strong and are fortified by…
— Winston Churchill
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It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile,…
— C.S. Lewis
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Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us…
— Edmund Burke
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When we let loose our feelings, we waste so much energy, shatter our nerves, disturb our minds, and accomplish very little work.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or…
— Johannes Peter Muller
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This is, i think, very much the Age of Anxiety, the age of the neurosis, because along with so much that weighs…
— Louis Kronenberger
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If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing…
— Asger Jorn
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God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle…
— George Eliot
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The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice.…
— H.G. Wells
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It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.
— H.G. Wells
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