That an absolutely generic instinct is the foundation of all love of sex may be confirmed by a closer analysis of the subject — an analysis which can hardly be avoided. In the first place, a man in love is by nature inclined to be...
Jane Austen began work on Mansfield Park in the spring of 1813 and published it the following year. The novel tells the story of Fanny Price, a shy, modest young girl from a penniless family in Portsmouth who, in order to relieve her parents, is...
You do hard work to become famous. One day you become famous. Now you cannot move in the street. Now the crowd stares at you. You don't have any freedom. Now you have to remain closed in your chamber. You cannot get out, you are...
Jesus Predicts Peter’s Denial 31 Then Jesus told them, “This very night you will all fall away on account of me, for it is written: “‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’[a] 32 But after I have risen, I will go ahead of you into Galilee.” 33 Peter...
By a peculiar weakness of human nature, people generally think too much about the opinion which others form of them; although the slightest reflection will show that this opinion, whatever it may be, is not in itself essential to happiness. Therefore it is hard to...
A rabbi was the guest of a family. The man of the house. impressed by the honor. warned his children to behave seriously at the dinner table because the great rabbi was coming. But during the course of the meal they laughed at something and...
The real inequality between men, the root from which every other visible difference arises, is that they belong to different levels of inner responsibility. Differences in the quality of thought place men vertically on different levels of the ladder of Being. There exists an inner hierarchy...
We had been talking about the need for recognition and affirmation from others, and Jorge had been explaining Maslow's theory of the hierarchy of necessities. We all need the respect and esteem of those around us to be able to create our own self-esteem. Around...
By way of specially illustrating this perverse and exuberant respect for other people’s opinion, let me take passage from the Times of March 31st, 1846, giving a detailed account of the execution of one Thomas Wix, an apprentice who, from motives of vengeance, had murdered...
In 1784, Kant referred to the 'unsociable sociability' of men that leads them to enter into society even though they find the company of others repugnant. Chemists, Goethe remarked, used to be called 'separators' or analysts. They took the elements apart in order to form new...
