- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.
- Evolution
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I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.
- Evidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.
- Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020