Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. – Honore de Balzac Category: Friendship
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. – Simone Weil Category: Intelligence
We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world — mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt. – R. D. Laing Category: Alienation
