#psychoanalysis

What the artists, like the alchemists, probably did not realize was the psychological fact that they were projecting part

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Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which claims universality;...

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It seems to me at times that I am incapable of beginning a life in real life, because it has seemed to me that I have lost

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Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life’s nausea and disgust with life, merely

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The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.

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I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.

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People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number,

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I love those who do not know how to live except by going under, for they are those who cross over.

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There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of

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All men saved from the scattering influences of society by a powerful incentive, a cause, or an ideal of individual perfection,...

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I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic. Though I may not believe in the order of the universe, yet

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There is no ‘a priori’ reason for supposing that the truth, when it is discovered, will necessarily prove interesting.

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There is nothing so powerful as truth — and often nothing so strange.

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I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be

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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

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It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. If he

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By natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the geometry

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The measure of a person’s disposition is this: how far is he from what he understands to what he does, how great is the

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Blessed are the forgetful; for they get over their stupidities, too.

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A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats,

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If a person continues to see only giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.

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Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our

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Why are you so firmly, so triumphantly, convinced that only the normal and the positive—in other words, only what is

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Faith is the most important factor in religious questions. If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe,

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