What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?
Interpretation
The weak find comfort in knowing that their struggles are shared by others.
This quote reflects the idea that people who feel weak or vulnerable often seek reassurance in the knowledge that their experiences, struggles, and weaknesses are universal. It suggests that understanding that we are not alone in our hardships can provide a sense of strength and solidarity, fostering a connection among those who may feel isolated in their challenges.
In practice
This quote could be shared during a support group meeting to highlight the importance of community.
Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not from a lack of answers but from the absence of the impulse to ask questions.
Faith in humanity, in posterity, in the destiny of one's religion, nation, race, party or family-what is it but the visualization of that eternal something to which we attach the self that is about to be annihilated?
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.
The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or creative consciousness.
Death is more certain than the morrow, than night following day, than winter following summer. Why is it then that we prepare for the night and for the winter time, but do not prepare for death. We must prepare for death. But there is only one way to prepare for death - and that is to live well.
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.
Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves.
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