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“Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.”

Self Names Consciousness Sensibility Egotism Self Consciousness Morbid

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“The heart-throb for the welfare of humanity therefore passes into the ravings of an insane self-conceit, into the fury of consciousness to preserve itself from destruction; and it does this by expelling from itself the perversion which it is itself, and by striving to look on it and express it as something else.”

Looks Heart Doe Self Humanity Consciousness Destruction Strive Insane Preserves Welfare Fury Egotism Conceit Perversion

Book:Phenomenology of Spirit

Source: Phenomenology of Spirit

“In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.”

Soul Individual Social Consciousness Company Egotism Good Company

Book:Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays

Source: Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays

“Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.”

Self Names Consciousness Objects Ego Cures Sensibility Egotism Self Consciousness Morbid

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought