"Our intellect is not the most subtle, the……" — Marcel Proust

"Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey."

— Marcel Proust

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A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power. — Martin Buber
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The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest. — Emile M. Cioran
Every man builds his world in his own image; he has the power to choose, but no power to escape… — Ayn Rand
Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power. — Martin Buber

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