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“I read in a book that a man called Christ went about doing good. It distresses me that I am so easily satisfied with just going about.”
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“As he had once written, "I believe that he who learns only how to obey orders can never be a great explorer.”
― The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
― The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
“Hope is a passion for the possible.”
― Fear and Trembling
― Fear and Trembling
“Modern man does not understand how much his “rationalism” (which has destroyed his capacity to respond to numinous symbols and ideas) has put him at the mercy of the psychic “underworld.” He has freed himself from “superstition” (or so he believes), but in the process he has lost his spiritual values to a positively dangerous degree. His moral and spiritual tradition has disintegrated, and he is now paying the price for this break-up in worldwide disorientation and dissociation. Anthropologists”
― Man and His Symbols
― Man and His Symbols
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