When studying the fundamental characteristics of a crowd we stated that it is guided almost exclusively by unconscious motives. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In fact, the real source of all thosedifferences, is that the savage lives within himself, whereas thecitizen, constantly beside himself, knows only how to live in theopinion of others; insomuch that it is, if I may say so, merely fromtheir judgment that he derives the consciousness of his own existence.

I will explain myself; but this will be to take the most useless, most superfluous precaution; for everything that I will tell you could only be understood by those who do not need to be told

Nie to najciężej wyznać, co w nas jest zbrodnicze, ale co wstydliwe i śmieszne