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“Their hate is both possessive and dismissive, and it makes me ill.”
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“If the formation is itself off course, then the man who is really to get "on course" must leave the formation.”
― The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise
― The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise
“People do say that now to know oneself is a deception and an imperfection, but often they are unwilling to understand that someone who actually knows himself perceives precisely that he is not capable of anything at all”
― The Essential Kierkegaard
― The Essential Kierkegaard
“A grim pattern is visible in history: When religion is the ruling force in a society, it produces horror. The stronger the supernatural beliefs, the worse the inhumanity. A culture dominated by intense faith invariably is cruel to people who don't share the faith--and sometimes to many who do.”
― Holy Horrors: An Illustrated History of Religious Murder and Madness
― Holy Horrors: An Illustrated History of Religious Murder and Madness
“Nonschizoid people often conclude that, because schizoid individuals resolve their closeness/distance conflicts in the direction of distance and seem to thrive on being alone, they are not particularly attached and therefore are not reactive to separation. Yet, internally, schizoid people may have powerful attachments. In fact, their attachments may be more intensely invested with emotion than are the attachments of people with much more obviously ’anaclitic’ psychologies. Because schizoid individuals tend to feel safe with comparatively few others, any threat to or loss of their connection with these people can be devastating. If there are only three individuals by whom one feels truly known, and one of these is lost, then one third of one’s support system has vanished.”
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