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I have found one academic study which summarises research looking at the relationship between ornament size and personality (Steiner, 1980). It notes two key studies, both unpublished conference presentations by the American psychologist
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“The only real tyrants that humanity has known have always been the memories of its dead or the illusions it has forged itself.”
― The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
― The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
“Only the free and personal man is a good citizen (realist), and even with the lack of particular (scholarly, artistic, etc)culture, a tasteful judge (humanist).”
― False Principle of Our Education
― False Principle of Our Education
“Revolution is aimed at new arrangements; insurrection leads us no longer to let ourselves be arranged, but to arrange ourselves, and set no glittering hope on "institutions”
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“No matter how lazy or unmotivated a person is, if he feels his life is on the line, he will devote every available resource to not being killed. Civilization goes out the door, and pure survival kicks in. When people are that awake and that focused, they intrigue me. So you can say I have a job that brings out the best in people.”
― Superego
― Superego
“Having to kill. That was an odd thought to me. Civilized people like to think they don’t have to kill, but I don’t know of any sentient species that didn’t evolve from predators. Hunting and killing are very difficult, much more so than fleeing death. They require complex instincts that eventually lead to the development of intelligence. In a way, all of man’s highest creations—from art to literature to science—only came about because of his basic need to kill.”
― Superego
― Superego
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