Modern man no longer regards Nature as being in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.
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The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned it remains intact.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.
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