“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the road less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. —ROBERT FROST”
― Metaphors Be With You: An A to Z Dictionary of History's Greatest Metaphorical Quotations – The Definitive Reference for Writers and Language Lovers
― Metaphors Be With You: An A to Z Dictionary of History's Greatest Metaphorical Quotations – The Definitive Reference for Writers and Language Lovers
“Whether we are 'Freudians' or not, as I am not, we are surely all post-Freudian. He set the tone for vast changes in our culture”
― The Meaning of Anxiety
― The Meaning of Anxiety
“First, do no harm . . .’ Commonly attributed to Hippokrates of Kos, c. 460 BC ‘Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray – a place of bitterness and regret, where he must look for an explanation for his failures.’ René Leriche, La philosophie de la chirurgie, 1951”
― Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery - as seen on 'life-changing' BBC documentary Confessions of a Brain Surgeon
― Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery - as seen on 'life-changing' BBC documentary Confessions of a Brain Surgeon
“Snow was falling,
so much like stars
filling the dark trees
that one could easily imagine
its reason for being was nothing more
than prettiness.”
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so much like stars
filling the dark trees
that one could easily imagine
its reason for being was nothing more
than prettiness.”
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“Bertrand Russell writes that the painful thing “about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.”
― Man's Search for Himself
― Man's Search for Himself
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