"This particular animal, the human, is the most complex and needs the longest length of protection before it is able to manage on its own."

"It is a curious thing that so many people only go into a bookshop when they happen to need some particular book."

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"Of the nature of the soul, though her true form be ever a theme of more than mortal discourse, let me speak briefly, and in a figure."

" Many of our hours are lost in a rotation of petty cares, in a constant recurrence of the same employments."

An old king in Shakespeare cautions: “Make no noise, make no noise, draw the curtains .... we’ll go to supper i’ the morning.”

"Our time, said Max Scheler, is the first in which man has become thoroughly and completely problematic to himself."

"Dissipation of mind, and length of time, are the remedies to which the greatest part of mankind trust in their afflictions."

"I don't know how to explain who I am or why I am writing to you except to say that I have just read your book, On Becoming a Person, ..."

"I would no longer be terming it a "state of empathy," because I believe it to be a process, rather than a state."

"To me it is meaningful to say that the substratum of all motivation is the organismic tendency toward fulfillment."

People with a soulful psychological temperament are receptive, reflective, often deliberate and slow.

"One’s education must first of all be directed to a thorough knowledge of the classics and an understanding of the teachings of the sages."

"Liberal education is literate education of a certain kind: some sort of education in letters or through letters."

"Balzac realised even from the early volumes the particular quality of Stendhal’s intelligence and his mastery of psychology."

"For the king and lord Osiris, they represent by an eye and a sceptre, and some even interpret the name as "Many-eyed"."

"Mankind is divided into three classes: Lovers of wealth; lovers of honour, and lovers of wisdom ; this last, being highest."

"The inaccessibility of the ends of the rainbow has encouraged the growth of countless legends."

"What Epicurus, who never travelled except when he was banished, sought in his own garden, our tourists seek abroad."

"My own sensibility reacts but little externally. It is occupied either by confused inward impressions, or by the ideas which strike me."

"Nothing could be more chimerical than the notion that Man is the same thing as the Economic Man."

"Maupassant's renown is universal, but his popularity is restricted. It is not difficult to perceive why."

"Nothing now remaining that can shatter that inner unity, nothing from without clinging to the authentic man."

"Initiatory death signifies the end at once of childhood, of ignorance, and of the profane condition."