The Great Conversation

Quotes I have come across in my readings that I find to be beautiful, wondrous, enthralling, enchanting, heart-wrenching, harrowing, euphoric, transformative, etc.

I am currently reading:
The Marx-Engels Reader by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

It is our duty to seek to become rounded, complete creature, a whole sufficient unto itself or, on the contrary, to be only a part of the whole, the organ of an organism?

The Division of Labour in Society by Émile Durkheim