For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance,... that, really, one has no time to mind the stage.... One merely comes to meet one's friends, and shew that one's alive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. "Patriotism" is its cult. It should hardly be necessary to sa...y, that by "patriotism" I mean that attitude which puts the own nation above humanity, above the principles of truth and justice; not the loving interest in one's own nation, which is the concern with the nation's spiritual as much as with its material welfare--never with its power over other nations. Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... it is a commonplace that men like war. For peace, in our society, with the feeling we have then that it is feeble-minded to st...rive except for one's own private profit, is a lonely thing and a hazardous business. Over and over men have proved that they prefer the hazards of war with all its suffering. It has its compensations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Freud, Jung thought, had been a great discoverer of facts about the mind, but far too inclined to leave the solid ground of "criti...cal reason and common sense." Freud for his part criticized Jung for being gullible about occult phenomena and infatuated with Oriental religions; he viewed with sardonic and unmitigated skepticism Jung's defense of religious feelings as an integral element in mental health. For Freud, religion was a psychological need projected onto culture, the child's feeling of helplessness surviving in adults, to be analyzed rather than admired.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of hea...t or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I already, and for weeks afterward, felt my nature the coarser for this part of my woodland experience, and was reminded that our ...life should be lived as tenderly and daintily as one would pluck a flower.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »