“The spirit of barter is everywhere. Honour and Chastity! Behold the complacent salesman retailing the Good and True. One can even buy a so-called Religion, which is really but common morality sanctified with flowers and music. Rob the Church of her accessories and what remains behind? Yet the trusts…”Tagged: Society, humanity, societal standards, standards of morality, society's standards
“Education, in order to keep up the mighty delusion, encourages a species of ignorance. People are not taught to be really virtuous, but to behave properly. We are wicked because we are frightfully self-conscious.”Tagged: Education, education system, education to humans, education to mankind, Human Behavior
“...how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup.”Tagged: human actions, Human Behavior, human enjoyment, humanity, Mankind
“One who could make of himself a vacuum into which others might freely enter would become master of all situations. The whole can always dominate the part.”Tagged: Human Behavior, human, Mankind, human beings, Person