“The things we counterfeit are not worth the trouble of falling into disgrace with ourselves.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 140
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Source: Das Ressentiment im Aufbau der Moralen (1912), L. Coser, trans. (1973), p. 73

“That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.”
“As long as we think we are worth something, we wrong ourselves.”
Mientras creemos tener algún valor, nos hacemos daño.
Voces (1943)

"It's written by Charles Grosvenor Osgood (1871-1964), as part of a 1917 preface to Boswell's 'Life of Johnson.'"
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“What in God’s name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?”
continuity (42) “And Say Which Seed Will Grow“
Stand on Zanzibar (1968)