“One of the most interesting and harmful delusions to which men and nations can be subjected is that of imagining themselves special instruments of the Divine Will.”
“I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.”
“The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.”
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