Tag Archives: ego
Animals II
"All men who would surpass the other animals should do their utmost not to go through life unheralded like the brutes whom nature made to face the ground, obedient to their bellies." – Sallust, The War with Catiline, 40 B.C. … Continue reading
Resurrection
"To be cured [of our societal neuroses], we must rise from our graves and throw off the cerements of the dead. Nobody can do it for another – it is a private affair which is best done collectively. We must … Continue reading
Self
"…nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is…" – Walt Whitman, Song of Myself "One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star." – G.K.Chesterton