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“Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken.”

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William Moulton Marston was an American psychologist born on May 9, 1893, and died on May 2, 1947. He was renowned in the field of psychology, particularly for his research in sex psychology and criminal psychology. Marston is best known for inventing the Multiple-Choice Questionnaire, a widely used psychological testing tool in research and clinical practice. more

“Fortunately we have learnt to combine these ideas, not in the mutual toleration of sub-contraries, but in the affirmation of contraries, that transcending of the laws of intellect which is madness in the ordinary man, genius in the Overman who hath arrived to strike off more fetters from our understanding.”

Men Ideas Law Understanding Genius Ordinary Madness Intellect Strikes Contrary Mutual Affirmation Intriguing Ordinary Man Toleration Fetters Transcending

Book:777 revised: vel, Prolegomena symbolica ad systemam sceptico-mysticae viae explicandae, fundamentum hieroglyphicum sanctissimorum scientiae summae

Source: 777 revised: vel, Prolegomena symbolica ad systemam sceptico-mysticae viae explicandae, fundamentum hieroglyphicum sanctissimorum scientiae summae

“All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: it's one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him... One of its primary functions is to regiment men by force, to make them as much alike as possible and as dependent upon one another as possible, to search out and combat originality among them.”

Men Government Force Objects Essence Function Superiors Primaries Permanent Dependent Combat Conspiracy Originality Intriguing Cripples Superior Man

Author:H. L. Mencken

Quote by William Moulton Marston

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