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Madness is rare in individuals--but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche /Beyond Good and Evil /

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw /Maxims for Revolutionists/

The self is more distant than any star.
Gilbert K. Chesterton /Orthodoxy/

We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
George Bernard Shaw /Man and Superman/