Tao Te Ching

The Power of Goodness, the Wisdom Beyond Words
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“The cheapest sort of pride is national pride... it argues that he has no qualities of his own... Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.”

Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860 CE
from Parerga and Paralipomena, "Appendices" and "Omissions"

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Chapters

Chapter 72
Helpful Fear

Chapter 78
Water

Themes

Nationalism