From Self to Society
People foolishly imagine that the broad generalities of social phenomena afford an excellent opportunity to penetrate further into the human soul; they ought, on the contrary, to realise that it is by plumbing the depths of a single personality that they might have a chance of understanding those phenomena. (Proust, Guermantes Way, In Search of Lost Time; trans. Moncrieff, Kilmartin, and Enright)