Die or live for a cause? (Salinger)
May 25th, 2007 | Published in Morality, Life, Quotes, Religion
“Here’s what [Wilhelm Stekel] said: ‘The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.’”
–Mr. Antolini in J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye (1951), p. 244