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"Vengeance on a dumb brute!" cried Starbuck, "that simply smote thee from blindest instinct! Madness! To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous."-
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“The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to them a prominence out of all proportion to their true importance.”
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“Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.”
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“But God, the ruler of the universe, takes his stand upon it, regulating it and directing everything in a saving manner by the helm of his wisdom, using, in truth, neither hands nor feet, nor any other part whatever such as belongs to created objects.”
― Volume IV: On the Confusion of Tongues. On the Migration of Abraham. Who is the Heir of Divine Things. On Mating with the Preliminary Studies.
― Volume IV: On the Confusion of Tongues. On the Migration of Abraham. Who is the Heir of Divine Things. On Mating with the Preliminary Studies.
Herman Melville
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Dedicated to the discussion and appreciation of Melville's works and life, open to lubbers and sea-dogs alike. ...more
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