“If I could re-establish a class of nobles, I should do so at once, and I would not belong to it.”
Louis Veuillot (1813–1883) French journalist
Source: Jules Lemaître: Jean Jacques Rousseau (1907), pg 266
“The aim is not to give human beings real goals that warrant belief, and tasks to share in, but to re-establish “belonging,” although this kind of speech and thought is precisely calculated to avoid contact and so makes belonging impossible.”
— Paul Goodman, book Growing Up Absurd
Source: Growing Up Absurd (1956), p. 38.
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