“A bruise to the ego hurts more than a break to the bone.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 60
Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994), "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality", p. 51
Context: Campus speech codes, that folly of the navel-gazing left, have increased the appeal of the right. Ideas must confront ideas. When hurt feelings and bruised egos are more important than the unfettered life of the mind, the universities have committed suicide.
“A bruise to the ego hurts more than a break to the bone.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 60
“It's better to have a gay life of it than to commit suicide.”
“I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.”
“Science … commits suicide when it adopts a creed.”
"The Darwin Memorial" (1885) http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/CE2/DarM.html
1880s
“If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Source: The Origin of Species