Sublime

I don’t see him, either within his own terms or within the psychiatric terms of the time, or today, as being in the least bit psychotic, or unhinged, or at any point on the verge of tipping over.

não vos entregueis a distúrbios do pensamento ou da palavra. A aflição não constrói, a ansiedade não edifica. Saibamos ser dignos do clarim do Senhor, atendendo-lhe a Vontade divina no trabalho silencioso, em nossos postos.

My dream was very logical. A world not under God’s law is soon a world in which only tyranny prevails. Moral order is replaced by statist order, and man ceases to be a person before the law. We should remember that John Dewey, the father of modern statist education, was skeptical about personal consciousness and conscience. For him the reality was

The origin of the voice of the inner judge is simple to trace: it is an internalization of the voices of people who were once outside us. We absorb the tones of contempt and indifference or charity and warmth that we will have heard across our formative years. Sometimes a voice is positive and benign, encouraging us to run those final few yards. Bu

sanity, after all, is only reason applied to human affairs, and when this reason, applied over years, has resulted in disaster, destruction, despair, misery, starvation, and rot, the mind is correct to abandon it.

You might put up with their bullying if you had to, but in the privacy of your own mind, you might be thinking, What a jerk! However, when this voice comes from inside your head, you somehow have no perspective on it. You accept whatever it says as ultimate wisdom. So if it says one minute that you ought to stand up for yourself and in the next mom