that is the secret of happiness and virtue—liking what you’ve got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.

How could he find perfection in such an average day? Then I realized this was the whole point.

Nearly everyone in the world has appetites and impulses, trigger emotions, islands of selfishness, lusts just beneath the surface.

... Genius consisting neither in self-conceit nor in humilty, but in a power to making or do, not anything in general, but something in particular.

Written By George Eliot

About us

Featured posts

Featured Topics

Quick Links