Excerpts from Sigmund Freud’s paper From On Narcissism: An Introduction (1912)
“The term narcissism is derived from clinical description and was chosen by Paul Nacke in 1899 to denote the attitude of a person who treats his own body in the same way in which the body of a sexual object is ordinarily treated who looks […]
From Walter Kaufmann’s Critique of Religion and Philosophy
‘Most translations give no adequate idea at all of Buddhist scriptures, and those in most anthologies are especially inadequate. The originals are so exceedingly long and repetitious that the translator or editor usually feels forced to omit most of the text, keeping the bare plot and at best […]
They that have power to hurt, and will do none,
That do not do the thing they most do show,
Who, moving others, are themselves as stone,
Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow;
They rightly do inherit heaven’s graces,
And husband nature’s riches from expense;
They are the lords and owners of their faces,
Others, but stewards of their excellence.
The summer’s flower […]
