"Man is a mimic animal, happiest acting a part, needing a mask to tell the truth."

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“Once scientists and scholars invest parts of their career in support of a paradigm, it becomes a sort of a self-betrayal to abandon it.”

“One is not a single self, although there is some common thread holding together disparate incarnations.”

“Ritual is intimately connected with the mask, either in the wearing that hides the true face, or in the adoption of a public face.”

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