The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those w...ho are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King--my republican feelings and p...rinciples forbid it--the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the early nineteenth century, the doctrine of self-sufficiency came to apply to families as well as individuals.... The family ...became a special protected place, the repository of tender, pure, and generous feelings (embodied by the mother) and a bulwark and bastion against the raw, competitive, aggressive, and selfish world of commerce (embodied by the father).... In performing this protective task, the good family was to be as self-sufficient as the good man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Freud was, in effect, trying to take the mystery out of myth. Once it was decoded as a history of the unconscious, all was explain...ed. As Anthony Storr put it: "he was only happy when he was reducing things to the lowest common factor; and he did regard the unconscious as primarily the repository of bits of oneself that one couldn't accept." A very different way of looking at the psychology of myth was developed by Freud's one-time friend and colleague Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961). The fundamental difference between the two is immediately apparent in Jung's dictum that modern man is faced with "the necessity of rediscovering the life of the spirit." Jung, who was very interested in archaeology and thought of himself as excavating the mind, took myths to represent the inmost thoughts and feelings of the human race, patterns which are the product of inherited brain patterns.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Heap coals of fire on the head of your enemy" Mthis most uncharitable advice is found in a book [the Bible], of which charity is ...reckoned the standard principle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »