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He must be got rid of; he cannot be improved, or frightened out of his structural reaction.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=648","value":648},"note":"Foucault: 😬"},{"text":"for a professor must have a theory, as a dog must have fleas.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=657","value":657},"note":"Obvious attempt at knocking something through a negative comparison. What was it that made me start to really dislike Mencken? Still like his pirate quote, boyish as it may be."},{"text":"In fact, men think in packs as jackals hunt.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=683","value":683},"note":null},{"text":"this romantic ritual is generally the ritual of not being romantic; the pretence of being much more masculine and materialistic than they are.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=719","value":719},"note":null},{"text":"For the empirical, like the ant, only collects and uses; the rational, like the spider, spins from itself.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=735","value":735},"note":null},{"text":"Johnson defended the oriental regulation of different castes of men, which was objected to as totally destructive of the hopes of rising in society by personal merit.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=865","value":865},"note":"As if I needed another reason to dislike him."},{"text":"they were an evident embarrassment: it was like an eagle walking.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=881","value":881},"note":null},{"text":"man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=958","value":958},"note":null},{"text":"I believe rather that we stand in much the same relation to the whole of the universe as our canine and feline pets do to the whole of human life. They inhabit our drawing-rooms and libraries. They take part in scenes of whose significance they have no inkling. They are merely tangent to curves of history the beginnings and ends and forms of which pass wholly beyond their ken. So we are tangents to the wider life of things.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=960","value":960},"note":null},{"text":"The ambition of human beings to extend their knowledge favours the belief that the unknown is only an extension of the known: that the abstract and the concrete are ruled by similar principles: that the finite and the infinite are homogeneous.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=973","value":973},"note":"But this isn’t always the case."},{"text":"Abstract subjects of the kind just mentioned do not look like animals. They do not look like anything.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=976","value":976},"note":null},{"text":"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=988","value":988},"note":"No one quotes the second part."},{"text":"History is like some deeply planted tree which, though gigantic in girth, tapers away at last into tiny twigs; and we are in the topmost branches. Each of us is trying to bend the tree by a twig: to alter England through a distant colony, or to capture the State through a small State department, or to destroy all voting through a vote.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=1001","value":1001},"note":null},{"text":"Religion lies over them like an all-embracing heavenly canopy, like an atmosphere and life-element, which is not spoken of, which in all things is presupposed without speech.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=1018","value":1018},"note":"This is air."},{"text":"Life, so far as she troubled to conceive it, was a circle of rich, pleasant people, with identical interests and identical foes. In this circle, one thought, married, and died. Outside it were poverty and vulgarity for ever trying to enter, just as the London fog tries to enter the pine-woods pouring through the gaps in the northern hills.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=1021","value":1021},"note":null},{"text":"We might as wisely reprove the east wind or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their position, but stand for the defense of those interests in which they find themselves.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=1035","value":1035},"note":"Corn pine opinionsTa Nahesi Coates"},{"text":"I can endure the brutality (as it is termed) of mobs better than the inhumanity of courts. The violence of the one rages like a fire; the insidious policy of the other strikes like a pestilence, and is more fatal and inevitable.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=1040","value":1040},"note":null},{"text":"As a great river may be traced back until its fountainhead is found in a thread of water streaming from a cleft in the rocks, so a great national movement may sometimes be followed until its starting-point is found in the cell of a monk or the studies of a pair of wrangling professors.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=1062","value":1062},"note":"!!!Causality chain"},{"text":"Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not. The same particle does not rise from the valley to the ridge. Its unity is only phenomenal. The persons who make up a nation to-day, next year die, and their experience with them.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=1067","value":1067},"note":"You see this by getting up early and going outside"},{"text":"Each successive wave rushes forward, breaks, and rolls back; but the great flood is steadily coming in.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=1085","value":1085},"note":null},{"text":"The true superman comes not as the tremendous personal entry of a star, but in the less dramatic form of a general increase of goodwill and skill and common sense. A species rises not by thrusting up peaks but by the brimming up as a flood does.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=1088","value":1088},"note":"Anti Nietzsche"},{"text":"Volcanoes and their emanations have some properties not found elsewhere. They can give visual form to abstractions that have the character of an outburst, then self-destruction, or dormancy, or the potential for recurrence.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=1090","value":1090},"note":null},{"text":"democracy is a volcano, which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=1093","value":1093},"note":null},{"text":"Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out; on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine, and the sustaining corn.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=1095","value":1095},"note":null},{"text":"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day, like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=1144","value":1144},"note":null},{"text":"truth no longer malleable to human need;","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=1147","value":1147},"note":null},{"text":"Whatever wisdom constituently is, it is like a seedless plant; it may be reared when it appears, but it cannot be voluntarily produced.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=1192","value":1192},"note":null},{"text":"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=1210","value":1210},"note":null},{"text":"Indolence is a stream which flows slowly on, but yet undermines the foundation of every virtue.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=1241","value":1241},"note":null},{"text":"I wax impatient sometimes to think how much time it takes to do a little fragment of what one would like to do and dreams of. Life is like an artichoke; each day, week, month, year, gives you one little bit which you nibble off – but precious little compared with what you throw away.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=1297","value":1297},"note":null},{"text":"That any human creature ever, under any conceivable circumstances, acted otherwise than in obedience to that which for the time being was his strongest wish, is to me an assertion as incredible and as unmeaning as the assertion that on a particular occasion two straight lines enclosed a space.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=1310","value":1310},"note":"Well, define “strongest wish”"},{"text":"The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=1316","value":1316},"note":null},{"text":"The illusion that great men and great events came oftener in early times than now, is partly due to historical perspective. As in a range of equidistant columns, the furthest off look the closest; so, the conspicuous objects of the past seem more thickly clustered the more remote they are.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=1322","value":1322},"note":null},{"text":"Words cannot describe our feelings. The finer parts are lost, as the down upon a plum; the radiance of light cannot be painted.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=1332","value":1332},"note":null},{"text":"in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless than the colours of an autumn forest.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=1337","value":1337},"note":null},{"text":"Yet he seriously believes that these things can every one of them, in all their tones and semi-tones, in all their blends and unions, be accurately represented by an arbitrary system of grunts and squeals.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=1338","value":1338},"note":null},{"text":"The real offence, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his – attached to his own like a small garden-plot to a deer-park.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=1363","value":1363},"note":null},{"text":"he was a man of great parts who talked from a full mind – “It may be so,” said Mr. Johnson, “but you cannot know it yet, nor I neither: the pump works well, to be sure! but how, I wonder, are we to decide in so very short an acquaintance, whether it is supplied by a spring or a reservoir?”","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=1368","value":1368},"note":null},{"text":"The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the chambers and magazines of the soul. In its experiments there has always remained, in the last analysis, a residuum it could not resolve. Man is a stream whose source is hidden.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=1372","value":1372},"note":null},{"text":"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=1375","value":1375},"note":null},{"text":"Most men have no inclination, no rapids, no cascades, but marshes, and alligators, and miasma instead.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=1377","value":1377},"note":null},{"text":"exhibited a mind which resembled a whirlpool of mud, in which law, facts, arguments, and evidence, were lost in unfathomable confusion.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=1386","value":1386},"note":null},{"text":"For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=1395","value":1395},"note":null},{"text":"digging in one’s soul for the fine gold of genius, much dullness and commonplace is first brought to light.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=1406","value":1406},"note":null},{"text":"[I]t is not for man to follow the trail of truth too far, since by so doing he entirely loses the directing compass of his mind; for arrived at the Pole, to whose barrenness only it points, there, the needle indifferently respects all points of the horizon alike.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=1415","value":1415},"note":null},{"text":"Switzerland of his soul,","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=1430","value":1430},"note":null},{"text":"your heart sinks into a heap of sand within you.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=1470","value":1470},"note":null},{"text":"In like manner, the passions of the mind, which put the world in motion, and produce all the bustle and eagerness of the busy crowds that swarm upon the earth; the passions, from whence arise all the pleasures and pains that we see and hear of, if we analyze the mind of man, are very few. . . .","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=1473","value":1473},"note":null},{"text":"Any new formula which suddenly emerges in our consciousness has its roots in long trains of thought; it is virtually old when it first makes its appearance among the recognized growths of our intellect.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=1484","value":1484},"note":null},{"text":"Knowledge always desires increase: it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=1495","value":1495},"note":null},{"text":"[T]he thought floated only in Dr. Slop’s mind, without sail or ballast to it, as a simple proposition; millions of which, as your worship knows, are every day swimming quietly in the middle of the thin juice of a man’s understanding, without being carried backwards or forwards, till some little gusts of passion or interest drive them to one side.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=1513","value":1513},"note":null},{"text":"There is no space between consecutive thoughts, or between the never-ending series of actions. All pack tight, and mould their surfaces against each other, so that in the long run there is a wonderful average uniformity in the forms of both thoughts and actions, just as you find that cylinders crowded all become hexagonal prisms, and spheres pressed together are formed into regular polyhedra.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=1518","value":1518},"note":null},{"text":"The affair – I mean the affair of life – couldn’t, no doubt, have been different for me; for it’s at the best a tin mould, either fluted and embossed, with ornamental excrescences, or else smooth and dreadfully plain, into which, a helpless jelly, one’s consciousness is poured – so that one ‘takes’ the form as the great cook says, and is more or less compactly held by it: one lives in fine as one can.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=1593","value":1593},"note":"I recognize you"},{"text":"From my twenty-fifth year I date my life. Three weeks have scarcely passed, at any time between then and now, that I have not unfolded within myself. 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These are the soul’s mumps and measles and whooping-coughs, and those who have not caught them cannot describe their health or prescribe the cure.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=1999","value":1999},"note":null},{"text":"As a conquered rebellion strengthens a government, or as health is more perfectly established by recovery from some diseases; so anger, when removed, often gives new life to affection.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=2022","value":2022},"note":"How is every one of these wrong?"},{"text":"[T]he soul of man, thus surrounded, can not, and does never intelligently confront the totality of its wretchedness. The bitter drug is divided into separate draughts for him: to-day he takes one part of his woe; to-morrow he takes more; and so on, till the last drop is drunk.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=2047","value":2047},"note":null},{"text":"You see ’tis with weak heads as with weak stomachs, they immediately throw out what they received last; and what they read floats upon the surface of their mind, like oil upon water, without incorporating.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=2240","value":2240},"note":"Gross but applicable Reminds me of a quote from his stoicism book"},{"text":"I wish I could learn to remember that it is unjust and dishonorable to put blame upon the human race for any of its acts. 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Do I not know that he is pledged to himself not to look but at one side, the permitted side, not as a man, but as a parish minister? 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Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one. If you are asked what o’clock it is, tell it; but do not proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=2597","value":2597},"note":null},{"text":"He who knows that power is inborn, that he is weak because he has looked for good out of him and elsewhere, and so perceiving, throws himself unhesitatingly on his thought, instantly rights himself, stands in the erect position, commands his limbs, works miracles;","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=2612","value":2612},"note":null},{"text":"[W]e may consider the mind as it moves among thoughts or events, like a circus-rider whirling round with a great troop of horses. He can mount a fact or an idea, and guide it more or less completely, but he cannot stop it. . . . The will does not act in the interspaces of thought, for there are no such interspaces, but simply steps from the back of one moving thought upon that of another.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=2616","value":2616},"note":null},{"text":"As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.”","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=2652","value":2652},"note":null},{"text":"The Problems of Philosophy","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=2661","value":2661},"note":"😮😮😮"},{"text":"He that seeketh victory over his nature, let him not set himself too great, nor too small tasks; for the first will make him dejected by often failings; and the second will make him a small proceeder, though by often prevailings. And at the first let him practice with helps, as swimmers do with bladders or rushes; but after a time let him practise with disadvantages, as dancers do with thick shoes.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=2666","value":2666},"note":null},{"text":"(Johnson turns out to have had his facts wrong, but who cares?)","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=2682","value":2682},"note":"I do."},{"text":"I cannot compare the soul more properly to anything than to a republic or commonwealth, in which the several members are united by the reciprocal ties of government and subordination, and give rise to other persons who propagate the same republic in the incessant changes of its parts. And as the same individual republic may not only change its members, but also its laws and constitutions; in like manner the same person may vary his character and disposition, as well as his impressions and ideas, without losing his identity.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=2725","value":2725},"note":null},{"text":"Simplify, simplify. Instead of three meals a day, if it be necessary eat but one; instead of a hundred dishes, five; and reduce other things in proportion. 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The draw-bridge had swayed lightly under Madame Munster’s step; why should he not cause it to be raised again, so that she might be kept prisoner?","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=3400","value":3400},"note":null},{"text":"my hand writes, not I, from habit, as chickens run about a little when their heads are off.","isNoteOnly":false,"location":{"url":"kindle://book?action=open&asin=B01J4CLLN4&location=3432","value":3432},"note":null},{"text":"Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind, and behold, all the mats and rubbish which had littered his garret become precious. Every trivial fact in his private biography becomes an illustration of this new principle, revisits the day, and delights all men by its piquancy and new charm. Men say, Where did he get this? and think there was something divine in his life. 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