The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.
The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.
''I'' is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life.
There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.
The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them.
The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.
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